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THE 

TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 



(THE SCRIPTURAL CHURCH,) 




BY \ ' 

SIDNEY C.^+APP, PH. B. 

Author of The Story of Anglo -!^axon Institutions, or The Devel. 
opment of Constitutional Government, The Struggle, etc. 



PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR 



BURTON PUBLISHING COMPANY, 

Publishers and Booksellers, 
Kansas Citv, Missouri. 

1912 



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COPYRIGHT 1912 BY 

SIDNEY C. TAPP. 

All Rights Reserved. 



PUBLISHED DECEMBER 1912. 



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DEDICATION. 

To all who would know God's Truth 

as He has revealed it in His 

Word to man. 

The Author. 



CONTENTS. 

CHAPTER I. 
Creation 13 

CHAPTER II. 
The Fall of Man 16 

CHAPTER III. 
The Garden of Eden 24 

CHAPTER IV. 
The Flaming Sword 31 

CHAPTER V. 
The Physical and the Spiritual Man 33 

CHAPTER VI. 
Material Man 47 

CHAPTER VII. 

The Spiritual Man 65 

CHAPTER VIII. 
The Seed of the Serpent and the Seed of the 
Woman 73 

CHAPTER IX. 
The Carnal Mind and the Spiritual Mind 80 

CHAPTER X. 

The Carnal Mind — Sickness and Death 90 

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CHAPTER XL 

The Spiritual or Innate Mind 102 

CHAPTER XII. 
The Creation — Spirit and Matter — or Spirit and 

Flesh 118 

CHAPTER XIII. 

Marriage and the Natural Birth 126 

CHAPTER XIV. 

The Origin of Evil and Sin 164 

CHAPTER XV. 

Physical Disease, Sickness and Death 183 

CHAPTER XVI. 

Israel 192 

CHAPTER XVII. 

The Priesthood 208 

CHAPTER XVIII. 
The Immaculate Conception — The Crucifixion — 
The Resurrection — The Atonement — Baptism 
— Conversion and Regeneration, and the 

Trinity 216 

CHAPTER XIX. 
How to Prevent Physical Weakness, Sickness and 

Death 250 

CHAPTER XX. 

Heaven and Hell 258 

CHAPTER XXI. 

The Church 268 

CHAPTER XXII. 
The Conclusion and the Church Triumphant 284 



PREFACE. 

The Bible is a Mirror. If man would see himself — 
both as a physical and a spiritual being, let him look 
into this Mirror. 

If man would understand God's Word, he must 
first know himself in his dual nature — both as a phys- 
ical and a spiritual being. 

To understand the Bible is to know man — man 
whom God created in His own image — the spiritual man 
and the physical man conceived in lust and born of 
woman. The Bible is a revelation from God as to the 
true character of this dual natured creature we call 
"man." 

To understand the Bible is to know man. 

In this Work the Author has honestly and con- 
scientiously interpreted the Word of God as applied 
to this dual natured creature called man and he be- 
lieves in so doing has disclosed The Truth of God's 
Word. 

Read the Book, Dear Reader, and see if you do not 
have a different viewpoint of God's Word and man and 
the application of Holy Writ to man as a spiritual and 
physical being; and after due consideration see if you 
are not convinced in your mind and spiritual nature 
that the views disclosed in this Book are The Truth of 
God's revelation to man. S. C. T. 

Kansas City, Mo., 1912. 

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A WORD PERSONAL. 

The Author expects for this Work to be misunder- 
stood and misconstrued as is always the case when any 
truth is first given to the world. 

The Author does not wish to be understood as at- 
tacking the marriage relation and the home; but he 
does desire to say that he most honestly and sincerely 
contends that both according to Holy Writ and the laws 
of nature, marriage is a physical and natural institution 
and not a spiritual institution — and that the physical 
conception and birth of the natural man is a matter of 
the flesh and not of the Spirit. 

Few books in the history of the world were ever 
written under the disadvantages which have handi- 
capped and surrounded the Author during the writing 
of this Work. He was left an orphan when nine years 
of age. He inherited a weak nervous system and frail 
constitution and not having the home cares while 
growing up, he developed a stomach and intestinal trou- 
ble which finally destroyed his physical constitution, 
being unable to digest and assimilate his food. He has 
been operated upon five times — these operations de- 
stroyed his nervous system. During these years he 
knew nothing of the Spiritual Truths disclosed in this 
Work. But for the last several years after coming into 
the spiritual knowledge of these things he has lived by 
Mind and Spirit overcoming matter. The continua- 

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tion of his life for the last five years has been a miracle 
to all who knew him. How he continued to live no one 
understood. Life with him was a matter of mind and 
Spirit controlling matter. 

When a young fellow making his way in school he 
wanted to be a lawyer — but being rather religiously 
and morally inclined he purposed at one time going into 
the ministry. But the more he heard of orthodox 
preaching according to the theological creeds, the great- 
er mystery the Bible became. He could not understand 
it or comprehend it and being honest with himself, he 
would not attempt to teach others to believe a thing 
that he did not believe himself — so he changed his 
course of life and was admitted to the Bar and entered 
upon the practice of the law, which vocation he pursued 
until his health entirely failed him. 

With his nervous system shattered and constitu- 
tion completely destroyed he started from Kansas City 
in May, 1912, for Denver, Colorado — which city had 
been his residence for some years — on arriving at 
Wray, Colorado, the altitude proved too high for his 
shattered nervous system so he retreated to Hastings, 
Nebraska, where he spent the summer. While there 
this work was dictated in a sick room, a page or two at 
a time, as he could collect strength enough to express 
his ideas and thoughts. He has not possessed the physi- 
cal strength to read his own manuscript and has had to 
depend on others to do this for him. If there be imma- 
terial clerical errors in the work this explanation must 
be satisfactory to the reader until they can be corrected 
in another edition. If there be mistakes or errors — 
they are clerical and immaterial. The fundamental 
ideas of the Author are expressed as he desired them. 

Some may call this Work vulgar. The Truth can 
never be vulgar. To the clean, the Truth is always 



A Word Personal 11 

clean. We have dealt with the Truth as it is in God's 
Word in as chaste terms as honesty of purpose would 
permit. 

A word personal as to the Author may not be out 
of place here, as he will probably be in his grave when 
this Work reaches the public. He was born on a plan- 
tation in North Carolina and is the youngest child of 
Ruffin R. and Malissa Tapp, and has one brother, L. 
P. Tapp, Kinston, North Carolina. His mother's 
maiden name was Dunnagan. Both paternal and ma- 
ternal sides of his family were slave owners and plant- 
ers. They belonged to that civilization which challenged 
the world for morals, honesty and intelligence — and 
which prevailed in the South previous to the Civil War 
— and has now passed into history. He was born in a 
southern mansion — but by reason of the death of his 
parents when a child and the destruction of property 
values by the Civil War — had the life of an outcast waif 
during his boyhood. He was graduated in 1892 from 
Furman University, South Carolina, and entered upon 
the practice of law. 

In 1910 while he was sick unto death in California 
his name was presented to the President for appoint- 
ment to the Circuit Court of Appeals of the Eighth 
Circuit, but his health was in such a condition his 
name could not be pressed by his friends. After he 
has gone and is sleeping in the grave those who disap- 
prove of this Work no doubt will denounce him as a 
moral pervert — as a mad man — and a fool; that the 
truth may be known as to him and his character in the 
appendix of this Work may be found extracts from 
letters addressed to the President of the United States 
by the leading men of the country requesting his ap- 
pointment to the Federal Bench. 

The Author has not attempted to make this a work 



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of literature, but to express The Truth. If there be 
repetition, it is because he wanted to impress the idea 
and thought. 

He is grateful to Mr. W. H. Lanning of Hastings, 
Nebraska, who was good enough to have the Manu- 
script of this Work transcribed for the publishers. 

SIDNEY C. TAPP. 



CHAPTER I. 

Creation. 

Creation is of dual nature — Spiritual and Physi- 
cal. There is a mental and a physical ; a spiritual and 
material man ; a physical and a metaphysical man. The 
spiritual man is immortal ; the physical man is mortal ; 
the spiritual man is made in God's image; and the 
physical man is contrary to and the opposite of the 
spiritual man. The spiritual man cannot know the 
material universe. Neither can the material man 
know the spiritual universe. The physical and ma- 
terial man has his physical senses by which he knows 
and realizes the physical universe — the senses of touch, 
sight, hearing, smell and taste. Likewise, the spiritual 
man has his spiritual senses through which he knows, 
understands and realizes the spiritual universe. 

It is impossible for the spiritual man to under- 
stand, comprehend or know the physical and material 
universe through the spiritual senses. Likewise, it is 
impossible for the physical and material man to know, 
comprehend and understand the spiritual universe 
through the physical senses. 

The spiritual and the physical creation — or 
rather the spiritual and physical universe, for each is 
separate and distinct and the physical is the manifesta- 
tion of the spiritual — constitute the dual creation or 
dual existence. To be more exact, the spiritual universe 

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is selfexistant, or what the orthodox world calls 
"God," and is the Creator — by the orthodox world we 
mean man-made theology. The physical universe is the 
product of the energizing force of the spiritual universe 
and is the creature. In other words, the spiritual world 
is the Creator and immortal, the material universe is 
the creature and is mortal. 

The physical man is a part of the material uni- 
verse and the spiritual man is a part of the spiritual 
universe. Therefore, the spiritual man is immortal and 
the physical is mortal. 

It is with this dual existence or creation that the 
Bible deals. The Book includes both the physical and 
the spiritual man. From Genesis to Revelations it deals 
with the story of the spiritual and physical nature of 
man. The infidel and the agnostic and the atheist says 
he does not believe in the Bible because he cannot un- 
derstand it; the theologian instead of admitting that 
the charge that the unbeliever makes is the strongest 
argument in favor of its divine authenticity, under- 
takes to answer the charge by showing that the Bible is 
comprehensible. The unbeliever makes an issue, but 
the theologian does not join issue correctly with him. 
There are two minds — the innate or the spiritual mind 
and the educated or physical mind. The spiritual or 
innate cannot comprehend physical things ; neither can 
the educated or material mind comprehend spir- 
itual things. Part of the Bible is addressed to man's 
spiritual mind and cannot be comprehended or under- 
stood by man's material or educated mind. The other 
part of the Bible is addressed to man's physical nature 
and is a judgment of condemnation of his educated and 
physical mind — or as Paul puts it, his carnal mind — 
which is foreign to his spiritual mind and nature. 

Without this dual conception of the Bible and the 



Creation 15 

correct conception of the dual nature of man there can 
be no correct understanding of man's spiritual and 
material nature and of the Bible, which is a true pic- 
ture of both his physical and spiritual natures. 

We trust that we have stated our premises clearly 
for in the chapters which are to follow we propose to 
deal with man as a dual creature — immortal and mor- 
tal; spiritual and physical; and with the Bible as a 
divine and authoritative revelation as to his dual exist- 
ence and nature. 



CHAPTER II. 

The Fall op Man. 

In the beginning we are told that God created the 
heavens and the earth. Before the creation of the 
material universe matter did not exist. All existence 
was spiritual. Matter, therefore, is the creature and 
the spiritual universe the Creator. But since the Crea- 
tion the spiritual and the material universe have ex- 
isted as facts. 

In the story of creation we are told — in the alle- 
gorical languge and in imaginative terms of the Ori- 
ental tongue and mind — how God — the Spiritual Uni- 
verse — created something out of nothing ; how the Spir- 
itual Universe produced the material universe. 

Then after the narrative of the Creation of the 
material universe we have the story told to us, in Ori- 
ental terms and language, in detail, of the creation of 
the animal kingdom — man being a part thereof, but the 
highest type of same. It is not material whether God 
created the universe immediately or was billions of 
years in completing the Creation. 

We are told in the narrative of the creation of the 
animal kingdom that God created man out of the "dust 
of the earth" and we are told that "Unto dust he must 
return." That is, out of the chemical elements of the 
material universe the physical man was produced with 
the seeds of decay and death in the physical man and 

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The Fall of Man 17 

unto these chemical elements of the material universe 
after dissolution from the spiritual man he must return 
lifeless. That is, the physical man must die. 

In this story of Creation the narrative tells us, 
that after God — the All Wise Mental and Spiritual 
Universe — had created the material and physical man 
out of the chemical elements of the material universe, 
He breathed into him the breath of life. 

Here is where the spiritual and physical natures of 
man united and he became a living soul — the Story tells 
us that here is where the union of the spiritual and 
physical man was consummated. Dissolution of this 
consummation of the spiritual and material man is 
what we call death; that physical man returns to the 
chemical elements of the earth from which he was 
made, and the spiritual man returns to the spiritual uni- 
verse free from his bondage to the physical man. 

We are told in the narrative of Creation that God 
created man in His own image. That is, that the spir- 
itual life which was breathed into man became a living 
soul. 

The Biblical story tells us that God created Adam 
and Eve and placed them in the garden of Eden where 
was the apple which was the forbidden fruit that they 
were not to eat of. The narrative tells us that the moment 
they ate of this fruit they would know good from evil. 
It was the "forbidden fruit," so the story tells us. 

The dogmatic theological world has handed this 
down to the generations of men as literal history. The 
theologians have preached that there was a literal apple 
which grew upon a literal tree in a literal garden of Eden 
and this apple was to test man's obedience to God's 
command. The Biblical history reads : "And the Lord 
God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden 
to dress it and to keep it, and the Lord God commanded 



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the man, saying: 'Of every tree of the garden, thou 
mayest freely eat ; but of the tree of knowledge of good 
and evil, thou shall not eat of it; for in the day that 
thou eatest thereof thou shall surely die.' And the 
Lord God said: 'It is not good that man should be 
alone; I will make him an helpmeet for him. ,, 

"And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall 
upon Adam and he slept; and he took one of his ribs 
and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib 
which the Lord God took from man, made he a woman, 
and brought her unto the man. And Adam said : This is 
now bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh; she shall be 
called Woman because she was taken out of Man. 
Therefore, shall a man leave his father and his mother, 
and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one 
flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his 
wife, and were not ashamed. 

"Now, the serpent was more subtle than any 
beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And 
he said unto the woman : Yea, God hath said, ye shall 
not eat of every tree of the Garden. And the woman 
said unto the serpent : We may eat of the fruit of the 
trees of the Garden, but of the fruit of the tree which 
is in the midst of the Garden God has said: Ye shall 
not eat of it ; neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And 
the serpent said unto the woman : Ye shall not surely 
die, for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, 
then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods 
knowing good and evil." "And when the woman saw 
that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleas- 
ant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one 
wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and 
gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. 
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew 



The Fall of Man 19 

that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves to- 
gether, and made themselves aprons." 

Thus is recorded in parts of the second and third 
chapters of Genesis in Oriental style the allegory which 
relates the first overcoming of the spiritual man by 
the physical man and which the theologians commonly 
call the fall of man, and during the generations of men 
have misunderstood it and erroneously interpreted it 
to the sons of men. This allegory was the literary 
style of the time, place and people of relating the great 
moral of the struggle and war between the physical 
and spiritual man. Mind you, the story says : "There- 
fore, a man shall leave his father and his mother and 
shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh." 
It does not say they shall be one spirit, but one flesh. 
The truth intended to be conveyed by the story being 
this : That in the union of the male and the female you 
have the physical unit. That the sexual relation be- 
tween sexes is the most binding tie of the physical 
creation and by means of sexual relations new phy- 
sical life is generated and produced. The story con- 
tinues, "and they were both naked — the man and his 
wife — and they were not ashamed" — that is, the spiritual 
man had not been overcome by the physical man be- 
cause they had not had sexual relations. ("The fall 
of man" as termed by the theologian had not yet taken 
place) . But in the seventh verse of the third chapter 
of Genesis we have the fall of man as termed by the 

theologians complete : "And the eyes of them both were 
opened, and they knew that they were naked ; and they 
sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves 
aprons." In the twenty-fifth verse of the second chap- 
ter of Genesis they "were naked and not ashamed"— 
sexual relations had not taken place between them. 



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The spiritual man had not been overcome by the physi- 
cal man. 

In the seventh verse of the third chapter of Genesis 
— "and the eyes of them both were opened and they 
knew that they were naked and they sewed fig leaves 
together and made themselves aprons." Here sexual 
relations had taken place between Adam and Eve — 
the spiritual man had been overcome by the physi- 
cal man. "The fall of man," as termed by theologians, 
was now complete. The spiritual man was now pro- 
testing against the depravity of the physical man. Their 
flesh had "now been made one." But their spiritual 
natures rebelled, for there was no spiritual union 
there. "The flesh," which the theologians sacriligi- 
ously for centuries have been attempting to consecrate 
at the altar, "had been made one" and their spiritual 
natures were protesting against the power of the flesh. 

And the story continues: "And they heard the 
voice of the Lord God walking in the Garden in the cool 
of the day; and Adam and Eve hid themselves from 
the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the 
Garden. And the Lord God called unto Adam and said 
unto him: Where art thou? And he said: I heard 
thy voice in the Garden, and I was afraid, because I was 
naked ; and I hid myself. And He said : Who told thee 
that thou was naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, 
whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat? 
And the man said : The woman whom thou gavest to 
be with me, she gave me of the tree and I did eat. And 
the Lord God said unto the woman : What is this that 
thou hast done? And the woman said: The serpent 
beguiled me, and I did eat. And the Lord God said unto 
the serpent: Because thou hast done this thou art 
cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the 
field ; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou 



The Fall of Man 21 

eat all the days of thy life, and I will put enmity be- 
tween thee and the woman, and between thy seed and 
her seed ; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shall bruise 
his heel. ,, 

The Serpent in this allegory, of course, represents 
Eve's sexual passion. The Oriental style of expression 
and figurative language took the most poisonous of all 
the reptile creation to convey the idea of the anti- 
spiritual nature of the material man and the means of 
generation and perpetuation of the physical man; 
namely, sexual passion. 

But the story continues: "Unto the woman He 
said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy con- 
ception ; in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children ; and 
thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule 
over thee. And unto Adam he said : Because thou hast 
hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten 
of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying : Thou 
shalt not eat of it; cursed is the ground for thy sake; 
in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 
thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; 
and thou shalt eat of the herb of the field ; in the sweat 
of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto 
the ground ; for out of it wast thou taken ; for dust thou 
art, and unto dust shalt thou return." 

We notice here in this story that immediately after 
the "fall" as preached by the theologians — but, in mat- 
ter of fact, immediately after they had sexual rela- 
tions — God said unto the woman : "I will greatly mul- 
tiply thy sorrow and thy conception." The conception 
and birth of the physical man is immediately connected 
with the union of their flesh. And God also said unto 
Eve: "In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children." 
Here we have in Holy Writ, God pronouncing his wrath 
upon the physical birth. The very thing that theo- 



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logians during the centuries have been trying to make 
sacred at the altar — the physical marriage of the sexes 
for the purpose of sexual indulgence — God Almighty 
has pronounced His wrath upon. The physical birth 
which theologians have attempted to make holy by 
sprinkling a little water upon the head of the infant — 
God Almighty has declared to be anti-spiritual and has 
issued His decree to the mothers of humanity for the 
sin of the physical conception — "Thou shalt bring forth 
children in sorrow." 

Every ache and every pain of the mother in child 
birth is according to the immutable law of God's decree 
and is the everlasting testimony of the sinful nature of 
the physical conception and birth of the material man- 
Mind you, God told them "male and female" to be 
fruitful and multiply. But this was the physical man 
He told them to reproduce. That this physical man — 
the supreme and crowning glory of the animal kingdom 
— should subdue the earth and should have dominion 
over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and 
over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. In 
other words, the physical man that was to be produced 
as the result of the law of the sexes was to have do- 
minion over the rest of the animal kingdom, which was 
likewise to be produced by the law of the sexes. That 
is, the animal kingdom was to be multiplied and per- 
petuated by the laws of the sexes and man in his physi- 
cal nature was to have dominion over the animal king- 
dom. But in the second chapter of Genesis continuing 
this narrative we are told : "And the Lord God formed 
man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his 
nostrils the breath of life, and he became a living soul." 
In this second chapter of Genesis and the seventh 
verse, we have the dual creation declared. The man 
made of dust — the physical man — God told to multiply 



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and have dominion over the earth and the animal king- 
dom and the spiritual man into whose nostrils God 
breathed the breath of life — and who became a living 
soul — was the man who was created in God's image and 
is the spiritual man — and is immortal and can never 
die. The physical and the spiritual man as recorded in 
the second chapter and seventh verse of Genesis are 
of opposite natures and the conflict between the spir- 
itual and the physical man then began and had its cul- 
mination and consummation when the physical man 
first triumphed over the spiritual man when the sexual 
relation took place between the first man and woman 
as recorded in the allegory of the story of "The For- 
bidden Fruit" — commonly called "The Fall of Man" 
by theologians. 



CHAPTER III. 

The Garden of Eden. 

There is nothing holy as to the physical union of the 
sexes and there is not anything sacred about the physical 
birth — and all the chanting of the priesthood and the 
sprinkling of water by theologians cannot make this 
true. The Divinity of the very Christ whom they pro- 
fess to serve, depends upon the anti-spiritual nature 
and the unhoiiness of the union of the sexes — physical 
conception and material birth — as we shall hereinafter 
show. 

But let us follow the story to its conclusion : "And 
unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto 
the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of 
which I commanded thee, saying, thou shalt not eat of 
it; cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shall 
thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and 
thistles shall it bring forth to thee ; and thou shalt eat 
of the herb of the field ; in the sweat of thy face shalt 
thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for 
out of it wast thou taken ; for dust thou art and unto 
dust shalt thou return." 

Adam here "hearkened" unto the voice of his wife 
and ate of the forbidden fruit. In other words, he 
yielded to Eve's sexual influence over him and had 
sexual relations with her. "The voice" was her sex- 

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ual power and the "forbidden fruit" was sexual re- 
lations. And as a penalty for having yielded to the 
carnal mind and the material creation Adam is told 
that he was taken from the dust and to dust of the 
earth he shall return. Of course, it is the physical 
man that God declares shall return to the "dust," not 
the spiritual man made in God's image. It was the 
physical man that had sinned and it was the physical 
man that must return to dust. The spiritual man made 
in God's image, when He breathed the breath of life 
into the physical man, protested, and rebelled against 
every violation of the spiritual law when the physical 
man sinned in the sexual relation and when Adam and 
Eve — the first man' and the first woman — knew each 
other sexually. And the spiritual man has been pro- 
testing and rebelling against the sexual relation by 
which the material man is conceived and brought forth 
during all the generations of men and will unto the 
end of time. Because the material man and his con- 
ception and birth are anti-spiritual and in violation of 
every spiritual law — therefore, he is mortal and must 
return to dust. The spiritual man is the immediate 
creation of the great "I Am." I am is a part of the 
great "I Am" made in God's own image, and when indi- 
vidualized into a personality can never die. Upon the 
statement of these two truths — the dual creation of the 
material and the spiritual man — depends the truth of 
the Immaculate Conception — the Divinity of Christ, and 
the truth of the Christian system. 

In the twenty-fifth verse, second chapter of 
Genesis, we are told : "And they were both naked — 
the man and his wife — and they were not ashamed." 
We observe that this was before they partook of the 
forbidden fruit — before the spiritual man had yielded 
to the fleshly man. Now, the serpent was more subtle 



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than any beast of the field — which the Lord God had 
made — and he said unto the woman : "Yea, hath God 
said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the Garden" — of 
course, the serpent here spoken of was the sexual pas- 
sion of the woman ; and the serpent is used as the most 
poisonous of the reptile creation to convey the idea of 
the poisonous and deadly nature of the material crea- 
tion as represented in sexual passion by which the 
animal kingdom of the material creation is generated 
and perpetuated. Genesis, third chapter and second 
verse : "And the woman said unto the serpent, we may 
eat of the fruit of the trees of the Garden ; but of the 
fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the Garden. 
God hath said, ye shall not eat of it lest ye die." Here, 
in this verse, we are told that the material creation has 
inherently the seeds of death in it. It is anti-spiritual 
and must die. Spirit is life — matter is death. The 
moment the first man and the first woman ate of or 
touched the fruit of this tree — i. e., had sexual rela- 
tions — the means whereby the physical man was to 
be generated — they were to and did become conscious 
of the nature of the conflict between the spiritual and 
the material man ; and, that the spiritual man is life — 
and that the physical man is death ; they knew the dif- 
ference between the Spirit and matter and that Spirit 
is life and that matter is death. "And the serpent said 
unto the woman, ye shall not surely die, for God doth 
know that in the day that ye eat thereof, then your eyes 
shall be open and ye shall be as God, knowing good and 
evil." Here we have the woman's sexual passion; rep- 
resented by the serpent speaking to her through her 
physical nature and flesh overcoming the Spirit; and 
every mother from the first woman has had the serpent 
to speak to her and has felt the influence of the deadly 
poison of the fleshy nature over the spiritual nature 



The Garden of Eden 27 

and will until the end of time. "And when 
the woman saw that the tree was good for 
food and that it was pleasant to the eyes and a tree 
to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit 
thereof and did eat and gave also unto her husband, 
who was with her, and he did eat." The fruit 
of the tree which was pleasant to the eyes of the 
woman represents the influence of the male over the 
female sexually. The first man had aroused the sexual 
passion of the first woman. And the "tree that she 
desired to make one wise" — was her desire to know the 
man sexually. "And the eyes of them both were 
opened and they knew that they were naked" — i. e., 
their spiritual eyes had been opened to the anti-spir- 
itual nature of the material creation — they knew the 
spiritual man is ever crying out against the physical 
conscious of the conflict between the two. They real- 
ized the immortal nature of the spiritual man and the 
mortal nature of the physical man and that the means 
whereby the physical man is conceived is anti-spiritual. 
"And they sewed fig leaves together and made them- 
selves aprons." That is, their spiritual nature being 
conscious of the sinfulness of their physical nature, 
they attempted to hide their physical nature and flee 
from it — which man has been attempting to do from 
that day until this — and will, until the end of time. The 
spiritual man is ever crying out against the physical 
man and is ever struggling to be freed from carnal 
bondage — this bondage is represented by the law of the 
sexes through which the physical man is conceived and 
generated. "Adam called his wife's name Eve be- 
cause she was the mother of all living." Here woman 
was given a name because she had become and was to 
become the means by which the physical man in all 



28 The Truth About The Bible 

ages was to be generated and brought forth. We here 
see that the whole story as to the beginning and per- 
petuation of the physical man is one of sexual law 
and of the sinful nature of the relations between the 
sexes by which the physical man is conceived and 
brought forth. The means whereby the physical man 
is conceived is anti-spiritual therefore he is mortal and 
must die — but the spiritual man whom God created 
in His own image and who existed before there 
was a physical man and a physical woman to gen- 
erate a physical man is a different man from the 
material man born of woman and is immortal. 

They were naked — and they knew they were naked. 
Their spiritual natures were conscious of the sinfulness 
of their fleshly natures after they had gratified their 
sexual lust and they sought to cover up and hide the sins 
of the flesh as man has been doing in all ages and will 
unto the end of time. "And the Lord God said, Behold, 
the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil : 
and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of 
the tree of life, and eat, and live forever : therefore, the 
Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden, to 
till the ground from whence he was taken." We see 
here after the first woman and first man had known 
each other sexually, they knew the difference between 
good and evil — the difference between the spiritual and 
material world — between life and death — between mor- 
tality and immortality. They were conscious of their 
dual creation, that they had a spiritual and material 

nature — that they were immortal and mortal. Tn the 
sexual relations they had yielded to their physical 
natures and partaken of the seeds of death and thereby 
knew the difference between good and evil. He had 
eaten of the "tree of death" ; and the "tree of life" here 






The Garden of Eden 29 

referred to of which he could partake of and "live for- 
ever" — was his spiritual nature. "He could put forth 
his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and 
live forever." His carnal nature is the tree of death — 
his spiritual nature is the tree of life. "Therefore, the 
Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden to 
till the ground from whence he was taken." We here 
see that after the first man and first woman had 
yielded to their fleshly natures through the sexual re- 
lations, they were driven out of the Garden to till the 
ground from whence they came. That is, the divine 
decree was issued — that as the physical man was made 
from the dust of the earth, from matter which is anti- 
spiritual with the seeds of death in it, that unto dust 
he must return. The physical man was made of mat- 
ter — yielded to matter in violation of the spiritual law 
— and must die. "So he drove out the man and he 
placed at the east of the Garden of Eden a cherubim 
and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep 
the way of the tree of life." The Garden of Eden here 
means spiritual happiness; the correct and proper re- 
lations of the spiritual man made by God and in God's 
image before man yielded to the lust of physical man 
and became conscious of his dual creation and the 
enmity existing between the spiritual and the physical 
man and their absolute conflict with each other. After 
he became conscious of his physical and spiritual 
nature he realized that his spiritual nature was not in 
absolute union with his Maker, in whose image he was 
made — while his spiritual nature was in bondage to 
his physical nature — and he could not remain in a state 
of joy, peace and happiness, conscious of both his spir- 
itual and physical natures — one made in God's image, 
and the other anti-spiritual. This consciousness drove 
him from a state of peace and happiness — and drove 



30 The Truth About The Bible 

him out of the Garden of Eden. The cherubim here — 
which was placed east of the Garden of Eden — repre- 
sents his fleshly nature which keeps him from enjoying 
his spiritual state of peace and happiness with his Mak- 
er. The Garden of Eden represents man's spiritual state 
of happiness before he was conscious of his fleshly na- 
ture. The cherubim represents his fleshly nature after he 
became conscious of it through his sexual relations and 
to which he is in bondage and will be as long as the 
spiritual man and the fleshly man exist in their dual 
natures. When the fleshly man returns to dust, from 
which he was taken, and the spiritual man is freed 
from bondage to the fleshly man, the Garden of Eden 
will exist again; the man will enjoy his state of peace 
and happiness in unison with his Maker, Who made him 
in His own image. "And He placed a flaming sword 
which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of 
life." The flaming sword here is man's carnal mind 
which is ever at enmity with God and the spiritual 
man — "it turns every way" — to keep the spiritual man 
away from his Maker — to keep the spiritual man from 
enjoying his full state of spiritual peace and happiness ; 
to keep the spiritual man from enjoying full and com- 
plete spiritual life. It is that ever present devil which 
theologians have been theorizing on throughout the 
ages and which represents the conflict between the 
spiritual and the fleshly man. 



CHAPTER IV. 

The Flaming Sword. 

This flaming sword which turns every way has 
been ever present in man's fleshly nature from the 
time of the first man, and will unto the last man — and 
man has been conscious of the presence of this flam- 
ing sword in the anti-spiritual nature of his carnal 
mind since the first man had sexual relations with the 
first woman, and will unto the end of time. This mor- 
tal man; this carnal mind; this fleshly nature is ever 
at war with the spiritual man and trying to shut off 
the life of the spiritual man, trying to kill and destroy 
the spiritual man. It is the mortal in conflict with 
the immortal — the material man in conflict with the 
spiritual man — hell in conflict with heaven — the devil 
with God. The fleshly man died on the cross — the 
spiritual man lived, was resurrected and lives forever 
— and this is redemption; this is salvation — freeing 
the spiritual man from bondage to the fleshly man and 
letting the spiritual man enter his state of peace and 
happiness in union with the God who made him in His 
own image; returning to the Garden of Eden to his 
spiritual state — his heaven. The destruction of the 
flaming sword which is the consciousness of the physi- 
cal man over the spiritual man — the freeing of the 
spiritual man from the bondage of the physical man 
is salvation. The physical man died on the cross — the 

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32 The Truth About The Bible 

spiritual man liveth on — he is immortal and can never 
die. 

Without the law of these two creations — the mor- 
tal and the immortal, the spiritual and material — being 
understood and comprehended, it is impossible to un- 
derstand and comprehend the Bible. Part of the Book 
is addressed to the material man and his physical 
senses. The other part of it is addressed to the spirit- 
ual man and his spiritual senses. The physical man 
cannot understand or comprehend with his physical 
senses and carnal mind that which is addressed to the 
spiritual man and his spiritual senses. Neither can 
that be understood, comprehended and appreciated by 
the spiritual man which is addressed to the physical 
man. 

Not to recognize this dual creation is the fatal 
error of both the materialist and the spiritualist. That 
sect known as the Christian Scientists have the half 
of a great truth, i. e., that spirit cannot comprehend 
matter, but their fatal error is that they deny the exist- 
ence of matter. There is a dual creation — spiritual 
and material — they are separate and distinct creations 
and yet they co-ordinate, and upon this fact the truth 
of the Bible depends as a revelation to man. 



CHAPTER V. 

The Physical and the Spiritual Man. 

For the proof that the Bible is a revelation from 
God unto man, we only have to study man to establish 
the proof. We do not have to study dogmatic and 
scholastic theology. We have only to study man to 
establish the truth of the fact that man is a dual crea- 
ture and there is a dual creation. We only have to 
study man to establish the truth of the fact. The 
Bible is essentially a human and a spiritual book — it 
deals with the physical man; passes judgment upon 
him ; condemns him ; and, assigns him to the grave. It 
deals with the spiritual man — declares him to have 
been made in God's image. Treats him as a child of 
God and declares that he is immortal and can never 
die. As Saint Paul puts it in the eighth chapter of 
Romans: "There is therefore now no condemnation 
to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after 
the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit 
of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law 
of sin and death. For what the law could not do in 
that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his 
own Son in the likeness of the sinful flesh and for sin 
condemned sin in the flesh. That the righteousness 
of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after 
the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after 

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34 The Truth About The Bible 

the flesh do mind the things of the flesh ; but they that 
are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to 
be carnally-minded is death; but to be spiritually 
minded is life and peace ; because the carnal mind is at 
enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of 
God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in 
the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the. 
flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God 
dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of 
Christ he is none His." 

Second Corinthians, tenth chapter, third and 
fourth verses: "For though we walk in the flesh we 
do not war after the flesh. For the weapons of our 
warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the 
pulling down of strongholds." First Corinthians, ninth 
chapter and eleventh verse: "If we have sown unto 
you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap 
your carnal things?" Seventh chapter Hebrews, fif- 
teenth and sixteenth verses: "And it is yet far more 
evident; for that after the similitude Melchiszedek 
there ariseth another priest, who is made, not after 
the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power 
of an endless life." 

The Apostle Paul seemed to have had a clearer 
conception of the dual creation of the carnal and spirit- 
ual man than any other of the Biblical writers. But 
as a matter of fact, the Bible from Genesis to Revela- 
tions, is a story of this dual creation and the conflict 
between them. Moses* teachings are filled with this 
doctrine. In Genesis, as we have seen, he gives us 
the story of the dual creation and the yielding of the 
spiritual man to the physical man through the evil 
power of the fleshly man. After giving us this story, 
Moses then treats of the physical man in his physical 
nature and the spiritual man in his spiritual nature. 



The Physical and the Spiritual Man 35 

Moses' writings are replete with the doctrine of the 
dual creation. He gave the best hygienic laws to man 
of all the ages for the treatment and preservation of 
the physical man. No human science has ever been 
able to approach or excel his teachings on hygienic 
law. He likewise pictured the power and the glory of 
the spiritual man made in God's image. This same doc- 
trine of the dual creation is taught by the Prophets. 
The Bible is a book of figures and allegories. Every- 
thing in it represents some great spiritual or physical 
truth. Every character represents some idea of the 
spiritual or material universe and the law which gov- 
erns our spiritual and material natures. The Jew as 
a race represents the coming of the Christ. "Jesus" 
was the name of the man ; "Christ" was the name for 
the spiritual personality — the perfect creation of God 
— that is, the perfect spiritual creation; a personality 
created without the sexual laws and by power of the 
Spirit — a perfect spiritual being upon whom the ma- 
terial laws had no power of sin — the Son of God. 
Hence, the term "Jesus the Christ" ; "Jesus the Man" ; 
"Jesus Christ" the perfect spiritual being. 

The captivity of the Jews and their having been 
carried away into bondage represents the captivity of 
the spiritual man and his bondage to the physical man. 
"Jerusalem" means vision — spiritual sight and power 
— insight into the spiritual universe. The captivity 
and destruction of Jerusalem by the heathens as proph- 
esied by the Prophets means the captivity and over- 
coming of the spiritual man by the physical man. 

After the heathens had captured it, as told by the 
Prophets, means the final destruction of the physical 
man and his power over the spiritual man. The New 
Jerusalem, as seen and painted by the Prophets and 
St. John, means the final and absolute triumph of the 



36 The Truth About The Bible 

spiritual man over the material man — spiritual life 
over material life ; Spirit over matter and the spiritual 
universe over the material universe. 

Every figure, character and allegory in the Bible 
represents some law of the spiritual and material cre- 
ation, the material and spiritual universe. 

If you want to know whether or not the Bible is a 
revelation to man, do not study dogmatic and scholastic 
theology, do not study science and philosophy, do not 
study the so-called orthodox creeds, but study the Bible 
and then study man; study the spiritual truths and 
ideals expressed in the Bible and apply them to the 
spiritual nature of the spiritual man; study the hy- 
gienic laws and the carnal ideas and thoughts as ex- 
pressed in the Bible and apply them to the material 
and physical man. Do this and you have the eternal 
fitness of things. Do this and you have a perfect de- 
scription as told in the Book of the nature of the spirit- 
ual and material man. Do this and you have the proof 
of the revelation of God the Man and the sufficient 
evidence of the Divinity of the Christ. 

Moses and the Prophets and the Apostles spoke 
freely and fully of the spiritual and the material man 
and of God's laws as applied to the spiritual and 
material creation. Why then should we not do 
likewise? This is the reason some declare that the 
Bible is a vulgar book, and others have said that it 
could not be understood. Vulgar, because it described 
the true character and nature of the physical and 
material man; and could not be understood by the 
material and physical man with his finite and carnal 
mind and physical senses, because it expressed the 
spiritual mind and described the spiritual nature of 
the spiritual man. 

Man is a dual creature, the Bible paints him as 



The Physical and the Spiritual Man 37 

he is in his true character and nature; therefore, the 
Bible is a dual book. It is a spiritual book dealing with 
a spiritual man and a physical book which deals with 
a material man. Moses, the law giver, the Prophets and 
the Apostles understood this dual nature of man and 
wrote about him in his true character. They wrote 
about his physical birth and spoke about his spiritual 
birth. But the theologians have departed from the 
land-marks of the inspired writers and have attempted 
to interpret the Bible simply as a spiritual Book and to 
deal with man as a spiritual being only. And herein 
is the crime of the church as twisted and shaped by 
priest-craft and theology: The natural laws which 
govern the bringing of the man born of woman into 
this world are physical, and not spiritual — the laws of 
the sexes. What was the real "Fall of man" has been 
ignored and considered indecent and improper for dis- 
cussion by the church and orthodox theology, and 
hence it is this misconception of the Immaculate Con- 
ception, the Crucifixion and the Resurrection that has 
been given to the human family by orthodox theology 
and priest-craft. 

Orthodox theology — and we mean by "Orthodox 
Theology" man-made theories of God — and priest-craft 
has done more to curse the human race than all the 
materialists and atheists of the ages. So-called ortho- 
dox theology and priest-craft has kept man in dark- 
ness as to his true nature, but man will not accept the 
teachings of the unbeliever as the finality of all things. 

If Moses could speak or write of the natural birth 
and describe the sexual relations between the sexes 
as he did with perfect Oriental literary style in Genesis, 
if this great law giver, through revelation, could deal 
with man's physical nature and the sexual relations by 
which man was born of woman and the generative 



38 The Truth About The Bible 

organs and what they mean, and the physical man as 
he is, and the physical man as he relates to the spiritual 
man, why should we hesitate to interpret things as they 
were revealed to him ? If the Prophets speaking by the 
power of the Holy Spirit could give expression to man's 
true physical nature, why should we be ashamed to 
receive their message as they taught it? 

If Jesus Christ, when on this earth, could devote 
his time and ministry to teaching the human family 
the laws of the physical man and his sexual nature and 
the difference between the physical and the spiritual 
man and how they blend and influence each other and 
yet how they differentiate from each other, why should 
we not follow His teachings ? If the Apostles in estab- 
lishing the Christian church gave us the physical laws 
which govern the material man in his sexual nature and 
the spiritual laws which govern the spiritual man in 
his spiritual nature, what right has the Christian 
church now to ignore these laws? What right has 
theology and priest-craft to change them ? 

If Moses and the Prophets, Christ and the Apos- 
tles, taught that the physical marriage and the sexual 
relation between the sexes, whereby man is born of 
woman, is anti-spiritual, what right has theology to 
attempt to spiritualize it and to make it one of the^ 
sacraments of the church? If the Creator said unto 
woman: "For this cause thou shall conceive in sor- 
row," and decreed that woman should bring forth man 
in the physical birth in pain and agony because she 
conceived in lust, and because the sexual lust is anti- 
spiritual, and drove Adam from the garden of Eden — 
drove the first man from his spiritual state of happi- 
ness into fleshly bondage and returned the physical 
man to dust from which he came because he yielded to 
sexual lust and knew the first woman sexually, what 



The Physical and the Spiritual Man 39 

right has theology and priest-craft to attempt to spirit- 
ualize the physical conception and to make the physical 
marriage a spiritual institution and a sacrament of the 
church ? If the Prophets summed up all the sins of the 
material creation and of the fleshly man in the name 
of the harlot woman, why should the church ignore 
their teachings? If Christ differentiated between the 
physical and the spiritual birth, why should we not 
accept His precepts? If the Apostles taught that the 
material birth was sinful and that the spiritual birth 
was divine, why should not the theologians teach the 
truth as proclaimed by the Fathers of the Church? 

Were the teachings of Moses, the Prophets, Christ 
and the Apostles the truth? We only have to look 
around us and study man as he is to realize the truth 
of their teachings. 

The ignorant barbarian in the wild jungle of the 
forest realizes that he is a dual creature. There is 
something within him which tells him of his dual 
nature, of his material and divine nature. There is 
something within him which tells him that his dual 
natures are in conflict with each other. The spiritual 
man within, seeking freedom and to be released from 
bondage to the physical man, bows to the idol and 
prays to some power unknown to him which he knows 
is supreme, and at the same time he cuts and slashes 
the physical man in an effort to punish and to kill the 
physical man, because intuitively he knows that the 
physical man is at enmity with and destroying his bet- 
ter nature — the spiritual man. The female of the bar- 
barians intuitively knows that her power over the male 
is through the sexual laws and is a matter of sexuality ; 
hence, she puts rings in her nose and dresses herself 
in the most attractive manner with the leaves of the 
forest so as to hold the male through her sexual power, 



40 The Truth About The Bible 

just as the female does in the high cultured, civilized 
society when she wears rings, diamonds and jewelry 
and the best costumes of civilization to attract the male. 
The difference only being a matter of taste between 
barbarism and civilization, the purpose being one 
and the same — the control of the male by the female 
through sexual laws and sexual influence, the nature 
of which is anti-spiritual. Likewise, the male in the 
barbaric forest knows that the more brutal he is, the 
more vicious that he may be, the more attractive he 
will be to the female, because brutality and viciousness 
represent physical strength, and physical strength rep- 
resents sexual power, and the more sexual power he 
possesses the greater influence he has over the female. 

The civilized man wears uniforms and goes to war 
and murders and slaughters his fellow man in the name 
of patriotism while the female stands by and smiles 
and inspires him on. The difference is only a matter 
of taste between barbarism and civilization. The 
power to murder and slaughter represents physical 
strength, which stands for sexuality in the male and 
makes the male more attractive to the female. Bru- 
tality, avarice and greed originate in the sexual organs 
of the male and the more brutal and the more avari- 
cious the male is the more attractive he is to the female 
and the more influence he has over the female. 

Treachery, deception, jealousy and enmity of the 
female have their origin in the female organs, and the 
more deceptive and treacherous the female is, the more 
artful she is in applying the influence of her sexuality, 
the more power she has over the male. 

All art and literature is governed by these laws. 
There are at least two influences which run through 
and govern literature — the material and the spiritual 
man. 



The Physical and the Spiritual Man 41 

Poetry which paints wars, marching armies, con- 
quests, murder and the flowing of rivers of blood, come 
from the carnal mind and have their origin in the 
sexual organs. If wars and murders and flowing 
rivers of blood were no longer attractive to the femal?, 
wars would cease and peace would reign on earth and 
good will among men. But because the power to kill 
and murder represents masculinity and masculinity 
governs and controls the female, men will continue to 
slaughter and murder each other. If treachery and 
deception were no longer attractive to the male, worr^n 
would cease to apply their art of deception. But be- 
cause deception represents feminity and woman's in- 
fluence over the male is through feminity, which origi- 
nates in the sexual organs, she will continue to apply 
her art until the end of time ; until the spiritual crea- 
tion is free from bondage to the material creation. 

We have this truth thoroughly written in the his- 
tory of man by art and literature. We have the pic- 
ture of man painted in all ages marching in armies to 
conquest, wading in blood to victory over his felkw 
man and to the death and destruction of his fellow man. 
And at the same time we have the other picture painted 
on the canvas beside the picture of murder and death 
and rivers of blood — the picture of spiritual man, sing- 
ing hymns and praying to be released from bondage 
to the physical man. We have in poetry the songs of 
marching armies, the war cry of the victor over the 
victim, and yet on the camp ground where the victims 
of the victors lay mourning and groaning and dying 
we have the songs going up to 'THE GREAT I AM, 
THAT I AM" — from the spiritual man crying out for 
union with the spiritual universe. 

This is true of the heathen as well as of the Chris- 
tian. Before there was a Bible — a revelation from God 



42 The Truth About The Bible 

to man in written form — the carnal mind of man 
butchered and slaughtered his fellow man in the name 
of his heathen gods. In the name of the gods, the 
heathen went to war. The carnal mind of the heathen 
was governed by the same material law as the Chris- 
tian, governed from the same source — the force which 
generates the material man — the sexual organs. The 
heathen had the same carnal mind as the Christian 
and was governed by the same carnal instincts. At 
the same time, he had the same spiritual nature, a 
spiritual personality crying out to be free from bond- 
age to the fleshly man and offering up prayers and 
chanting to his heathen gods. 

The literature of the heathen, like the literature 
of the Christian, had but two governing forces, that 
of the carnal mind as produced through the sexual 
organs and that of the spiritual man. 

All poetry of the heathen and the Christian which 
appealed to the material man is woven around the story 
of a woman. Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare and the 
master painters of the ages who have painted the car- 
nal man on the canvas of all time, told the story in 
art of the influence of woman over man, the story of 
the influence of the female over the male through 
the sexual organs; they told the same story that the 
Bible tells us in Genesis when it says : "For this cause 
a man shall forsake his father and his mother and flee 
unto his wife." That is to say, the sexual attractions 
between the sexes is the strongest attraction of the 
material creation and the supreme and controlling 
power of the material man. Every ambition, every 
struggle for power, influence, and position of the male 
is controlled by this law. Every moving purpose of the 
female is controlled by the same law. 

Oppression and slavery is controlled by this law. 



The Physical and the Spiritual Man 43 

You have only to look into the face of man and read 
the avarice, greed and malice, envy and jealousy writ- 
ten there to realize the power of the sexual law over 
the material man and the enmity of the physical man 
with the spiritual man. You only have to look into 
the face of the female and read the treachery, decep- 
tion, hypocracy and jealousy written there to know 
the power of the sexual organs and the sexual law over 
the animal creation and the war between the material 
creation and the spiritual. 

You only have to read the faces of the male and 
female of the highest creation of the animal kingdom 
— man and woman — and study the anti-spiritual nature 
of the material creation as represented and influenced 
through the sexual organs — the means whereby the 
physical man is generated and brought forth — and then 
read the perfect description of this physical man with 
his carnal mind as influenced by the sexual law as told 1 
in the Bible to know that the Bible is true. 

All evil of the material creation originates in the 
sexual organs and is controlled by the sexual laws. 
The source whereby the physical man is created is the 
fountain head of the anti-spiritual creation. Take the 
girl just coming into womanhood, when she first be- 
gins to realize her sexual nature instinctively, she 
realizes there is something within her at war with her 
spiritual nature; and she wants to flee to some source 
and somewhere for protection. If she is a member of 
the so-called orthodox Protestant church and attends 
the usual so-called religious revivals she is the first 
to go to the mourners' bench — she is an easy subject 
for the so-called revivalist and traveling evangelist of 
modern civilization. If she is a member of the ortho- 
dox Catholic church she is the first at the confessional 
box. 



44 The Truth About The Bible 

The boy, when he begins to reach that age where 
he begins to realize the influence of the sexual law, 
begins to become malicious and vicious; he wishes to 
demonstrate his masculinity, especially in the presence 
of the female. 

The Catholic church, realizing this animal nature 
of man, invented the confessional box in an effort to 
control it. To fully appreciate the anti-spiritual na- 
ture of the physical creation, we must comprehend the 
source from which it comes, the sexual organs, and the 
sexual sense that controls it, and the perfect descrip- 
tion of the evil forces as described and told in the Bible. 

The Bible is a natural Book true to nature. The 
Bible is a spiritual Book and through it the spiritual 
universe is revealed to our individual and personal 
spiritualities. The Bible is a revelation of the universal 
Spirit to us — the individualized spirits. 

That the Bible is true to nature is in evidence be ; 
fore us daily. Watch the maiden as she flirts with 
the male — her every act and movement controlled by 
her sexual organs and the sexual laws. She practices 
deception here and duplicity there. She declares loy- 
alty today and betrays tomorrow; she proclaims her 
virtue to one; manifests her disloyalty to the other; 
she swears her loyalty in sweetness to the one of her 
own sex — while the mad ocean of j ealousy within foams 
and rages when a member of the opposite sex is the 
subject of rivalry. She professes her purity today and 
tomorrow she is in the depths of depravity. 

The male declares his honesty today — when he 
will rob, steal, plunder and murder tomorrow to con- 
trol and influence the female. He will confess loyalty 
to one of his own sex and then murder him because 
he is his rival for the same member of the female sex. 
He will betray the most sacred cause for the woman 



The Physical and the Spiritual Man 45 

who appeals the greatest to his sexual nature ; there is 
no crime too great for him not to commit to win her — 
no cause too sacred for him not to desert for her. She 
stirs within him wrath, jealousy, hatred, malice and 
murder and he is swept on by the ocean of these irre- 
sistible billows of his fleshly nature — he sweeps every- 
thing before him to destruction to have his carnal na- 
ture gratified by the woman who appeals to his sexual 
nature. 

The laws of the sexes is the all moving power of 
physical creation. 

It is this man born of woman with his mighty 
ocean of evil impulses ever beating against the shores 
of the spiritual universe that the Bible paints as anti- 
God and anti-spiritual and which Holy Writ declares 
came from dust and to dust must return. 

Study him and study the Bible and see the perfect 
description of him and his physical nature as therein 
recorded and you will know the Book is true. 

That his conception and coming into this world is 
anti-spiritual is recorded by natural law and fully set 
forth in Holy Writ. 

Of all the animal kingdom, man is highest type, 
and in his physical capacity was given dominion over 
all other creatures. But as an evidence and as an ever 
living testimony of the anti-spiritual nature of the 
physical man, the generative organs by which he is 
conceived are subject to the most deadly diseases 
known to the material creation — syphilis — the curse 
and scourge of the human race, and by which billions 
of human beings have died, is the indisputable evidence 
of the non-spiritual nature of man's physical birth. 
This loathsome disease with the horrors and suffering 
that it has produced upon the human family is an ever 
living testimony to the truth that the sins of the f ath- 



46 The Truth About The Bible 

ers are visited upon the third and fourth generations. 
No other member of the animal kingdom is afflicted 
with the suffering of monthly female sickness; and 
woman is the only female of the animal kingdom af- 
flicted with the suffering of what is termed the "change 
of life." These facts are recorded by nature as evidence 
of the non-spiritual nature of the physical man and 
what they mean are fully proclaimed to us in Holy Writ 
— if we will only read it correctly and understandingly. 



CHAPTER VI. 

Material Man. 

In the preceding chapter we have presented the 
idea of the physical and spiritual man in their dual 
natures and in their opposite natures in a limited de- 
gree at least. Let us here present more fully the physi- 
cal man of this dual creation in his material nature. 

As we have said, the material man is conceived 
and generated through lust by the physical sexual laws 
and in a material way. He is the product of material 
laws and materiality. There are two all-propelling 
forces which cause him to be conceived, generated and 
brought into eistence — sexual lust and selfishness. The 
desire of the material man and his carnal mind to 
gratify his sexual lust and his further selfish desire to 
perpetuate his material existence by bringing forth 
material offspring is the all moving cause of the pro- 
duction and perpetuation of the material man. That is 
what the Bible means when it says: "For this cause 
he will leave his father and his mother and cleave 
unto his wife." That is, the offspring of the material 
man will forsake the parents who produced him in 
order to gratify his sexual lust and to reproduce his 
material self. This sexual lust and desire to reproduce 
the material self is the strongest binding tie of the 
material creation. It takes the male and the female of 

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the animal kingdom of the material creation to make 
a complete unit of the animal kingdom of the material 
creation, and the mutual desire to gratify the sexual 
lust and to perpetuate self by the reproduction of the 
material man is the most binding tie known to the 
material law, the material man, the animal kingdom 
and the material creation. 

This lustful nature and selfish desire to repro- 
duce self by perpetuation of the material man is based 
on material laws and are anti-spiritual in their nature. 

As soon as the first man and the first woman 
gratified this sexual lust and selfish desire they knew 
good from evil — were conscious of their dual natures; 
that the spiritual personality within was protesting 
against the material personality without, and that the 
material personality without was at war with the spir- 
itual personality within. They were naked and 
knew it. 

This material man is not only anti-spiritual, but 
the opposite of Spirit, and cannot know spiritual 
things. He has physical senses and a carnal and ma- 
terial mind, but his nature is the opposite of spiritual 
and he cannot comprehend or understand spiritual 
things, spiritual personalities or the spiritual universe. 
He has material eyes and can see ; he has material ears 
and can hear ; he has all the five physical senses which 
enable him to know the material world. He has the 
carnal and material mind through and by which he 
knows and understands the material universe and its 
laws. 

But this material man with his carnal and material 
mind cannot know, understand or realize the spiritual. 

The material man and the spiritual man are the 
opposite of each other and the contrary and the con- 



Material Man 49 

trast of each other in their attributes and natures. The 
material man is DEATH — the spiritual man is LIFE. 
This is what differentiates man — his dual nature 
— from the lower animal kingdom over which he was 
given "dominion." 

The members of the lower animal creation are 
conceived and born and brought forth into existence 
by the same sexual laws of material creation as is man ; 
but the members of the lower animal creation do not 
possess the immaterial creation individualized into per- 
sonalities so as to have been made in "God's Image," 
and are not therefore conscious of the opposite natures 
of the material universe and the spiritual universe as 
is man in his dual nature. 

Man having been made in "God's Image," that is, 
the spiritual personality partaking of the attributes of 
the spiritual universe and the spiritual nature of the 
spiritual universe, is what differentiated him from the 
lower animal creation and the reason why he was 
given dominion over it. 

The material laws by which all of the animal cre- 
ation is conceived and brought into existence are deadly 
poisonous in their nature and contrary to the laws of 
the spiritual universe. 

This conception and birth of the animal kingdom 
of the material creation is anti-spiritual. 

That is what David meant when he said: "I was 
conceived in sin and shapened in iniquity in my moth- 
er's womb." This anti-spiritual nature runs all 
through the conception and birth of the animal king- 
dom of the material creation. 

The material birth is death — the spiritual birth is 
life. The material birth is of matter — the spiritual 
birth is of Spirit. 

The function of the male and female of the animal 



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kingdom and of the material creation is to propagate, 
and this function is deadly in its nature. 

The influence of the sexes of the animal kingdom 
over each other and the material creation is of a poi- 
sonous and deadly nature. 

Their function is to propagate, and each time the 
act which is necessary to propagate is committed, part 
of the material life is given up. Sexual relations 
reduces the vitality of the material man and he gives 
up part of his material life each time he commits the 
act. The act necessary to propagate the material man 
is injurious and destructive to the nervous system, and 
the nervous system is the means whereby all life is im- 
parted from the immaterial universe into the material 
man. In proportion as you destroy the nervous system, 
in that proportion do you destroy the means whereby 
life and vitality is imparted to the material man. 
Matter has properties; but matter has no life. What 
is called "Life" in the material man is the vitality which 
is imparted from the immaterial universe over the 
nervous system and which energizes the physical man. 

The sexual relations whereby the physical man is 
propagated is the indicator of the death of the material 
man; it is deadly in its nature. Every time he has 
these relations, he gives up part of his material and 
physical life. 

Moses understood this material law of the physi- 
cal man and deals with it in the Mosaic law. Hence, 
the crime pronounced by the Mosaic law in spilling the 
semen whereby the material man is propagated. The 
Mosaic law teaches us that the sexual act should only 
be committed for the purpose of propagating man, 
and even that is deadly in its nature and sinful. "There- 
fore, all are condemned under the law." "And there 
are none perfect; no, not one." Because the material 



Material Man 51 

man either commits the sexual act in fact or in desire. 
"And he that looketh upon a woman with lust — com- 
mitteth adultery." So — "There is none perfect; no, 
not one." Material man stands condemned under the 
law. His life and the means whereby he is propagated 
are contrary to the spiritual man. 

The relation of the sexes to each other in their 
sexual and material relations is deadly and contrary 
to the Spirit. This law runs all through the animal and 
material creation. 

There is in the lower animal creation an animal 
we believe called a porcupine ; the female of which will 
flirt with the male until she excites the sexual passions 
of the male and urges him on to the sexual relations, 
and while the sexual relations are taking place, and 
while she has him within the grasp of her fangs, she 
will literally chew and sting him to death — when the 
sexual relations are over the male is dead. 

What is true of this lower species of the animal 
kingdom is true of the material man. Who, with an 
observing mind, has never noticed this law in the ani- 
mal and material creation? Who has never observed 
the male within the clutches and power of the flirta- 
tions of the woman — the female — until through the 
sexual laws she had sapped all of his physical vitality, 
moral stamina, courage, honor, mentality and manhood 
from him and reduced him to a physical, financial, 
moral and mental wreck and left him afloat on the 
tossed, foaming, mad, raging billows of the ocean of 
the material creation without any spiritual harbor in 
which to anchor. 

There is another specie of the lower animal king- 
dom, or member of the lower animal family — we do 
not just now recall the name — among which when the 
sexual relation takes place, the male gives up his entire 



52 The Truth About The Bible 

life and dies. This law runs through the material uni- 
verse — the sexual relation by which the animal and 
material life is generated means death. What student 
of nature has not observed this law with the lower 
forms of the animal kingdom? Who is it that has 
studied nature and observed her laws who has not 
noticed and observed the male turn on the female with 
disgust after sexual relation, conscious that he had 
given up a part of his physical life ? 

This law is true as to man and accounts for why 
the woman and the man who, according to Orthodox 
theology, were desperately in love with each other, 
learned to despise and hate each other. When their 
sexual passions were raging and sexual lust was eating 
up their spiritual life, as orthodox theology puts it, 
"they were desperately in love," but when they had 
satisfied their fleshly lusts through sexual relations 
and had become conscious that they had given up a 
part of their physical life, they then despised and hated 
each other. 

That is what Christ meant when he said : "Flesh 
and blood cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven" ; that 
is, the material man who is conceived through lust and 
the material universe cannot know God. 

By the decree of the natural law sexual relations 
mean death. The brain is the dynamo by which vital- 
ity and life is gathered up and collected from the imma- 
terial universe which is life and these vital currents 
from the dynamo — the brain — or life currents, are sent 
as mental impulses down the spinal cord and tele- 
graphed off from the spinal cord over the main nerve 
trunks to the heart, the kidneys, the liver, the stomach, 
to all the organs and parts of the body causing the or- 
gans of the body to functionate, producing digestion, 
circulation and what is termed material life in the ma- 



Material Man 53 

terial man. Matter has chemical properties but mat- 
ter has no intelligence or life within itself. What we 
call life in the material man is that vitality which is 
telegraphed into the material man over and through the 
nervous system. This life current is collected and 
generated in the brain, just as electricity is collected 
and generated by a dynamo and sent flashing over the 
wires, producing power and force. 

The life force of the immaterial universe or spir- 
itual universe which the orthodox world calls "God" is 
collected and generated by the brain — the dynamo — 
and these life currents are sent flashing over the nerv- 
ous system producing what we call "Life" in the ma- 
terial man. These currents are conducted from the 
brain to the various organs, glands, tissues, muscles 
and parts of the body by the nervous system. This 
nervous system is the fine fabric of the human system 
and is composed of two parts, the outside or sheath, a 
tough and elastic substance, and the inside or axis 
cylinder, a soft jelly like substance. The chemical 
composition of this nervous system is albumen and 
phosphorus. It is over this jelly like substance, which 
we call the nervous system, that the brain sends life 
currents into the material man and produces what we 
call "Material Life." Each nerve is a unit and under 
normal conditions conducts a unit part of life from the 
brain into the material man. 

The spinal cord is the main nerve trunk. At one 
end of the spinal cord is the brain. At the other end 
of the spinal cord are the sexual organs. The sexual 
organs and the brain are immediately connected with 
each other by means of the nerve system of the spinal 
cord. The sexual organs are constantly sending im- 
pulses to the brain by means of the spinal cord and 
the brain is constantly sending impulses to the sexual 



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organs over the spinal cord. They are in telegraphic 
connection with each other by means of the nervous sys- 
tem. 

Man or woman — that is the material man or wom- 
an — is just as strong physically as he or she is strong 
sexually. Sexual power is the barometer of material vi- 
tality. 

Where is the thinker and observer of nature and of 
nature's laws who has not observed this material vi- 
tality, lust, jealousy, prejudice, hatred and malice of 
the material man as it is telegraphed by the sexual or- 
gans over the nervous system, up the spinal cord and to 
the brain and expressed itself in the eye and facial 
expression and mannerism of the material man. 

The animal nature of man is expressed on his face 
as it is telegraphed from the sexual organs over the ner- 
vous system to the brain. These nerve currents are in 
constant action from the brain to the sexual organs and 
from the sexual organs to the brain. The carnal mind 
as it dwells in the realm of sexual imagination, carnal 
lust and material things, is controlled by the sexual or- 
gans. The power of hatred, malice, jealousy, envy, 
lust and murder as they rage and battle with the ma- 
terial man have their origin in the sexual organs which 
sends them as currents over the spinal cord to the 
brain. The educated or material mind of man which 
deals with the physical senses and the material man 
and material things is controlled by this same law. 

The theologian in the pulpit preaching a physical 
god, a god of hatred, of jealousy, with physical senses, 
to the material man with physical senses and a material 
mind of hatred, jealousy and malice, is controlled by 
this law; and yet the theologian is unconscious of the 
fact that it is these nerve currents sent by the sexual 



Material Man 55 

organs over the nervous system to the brain that gives 
him this conception of a god and his relations to man. 

The power of mental imagery which paints upon 
the canvas the poetic picture that pleases the material 
mind comes from the sexual organs. The theologian 
in the pulpit, as he paints the beautiful landscapes of 
material things, portrays the marching armies of the 
centuries of a material church marching to a material 
conquest so as to please the fancy of the material man, 
is controlled by this law. 

All poetry, imagination, emotion and sentiment 
which appeals to the physical man and mind of the 
physical senses is controlled by this law. 

Hence Christ said: "My kingdom is not of this 
world," meaning that the spiritual man and 
his spiritual mind are entirely different from 
the material man and his physical senses. Again 
he said : "Search the scriptures, for in them you think 
you have eternal life, and they are that which condemn 
you" ; meaning, "Search the scriptures, for in them you 
think they attribute life to the material man and his 
physical senses," wherein as a matter of fact they de- 
scribe the material man with his physical senses as 
anti-spiritual and condemn him unto death. 

The material man is just as strong and vital as his 
nervous system and sexual organs are strong. It is the 
life current which is generated in the brain and tele- 
graphed over the nervous system that causes all diges- 
tion, assimilation of matter and keeps vitality in the 
material man. When the material man is asleep, this 
nervous system is relaxed and this vital current is flow- 
ing from the brain with full force and speed over the 
nervous system in the material man throwing off the 
waste matter and assimilating new material — building 
up tissues and vitality in the material man. 



56 The Truth About The Bible 

As the nervous system grows weaker and the brain 
— the dynamo — by degrees loses its power to generate 
and send this vital current over the nervous system 
into the material man, vitality decreases in the material 
man, and as this process continues to decrease, finally, 
the brain ceases to generate enough vital current. The 
nervous system becomes so weak that it can no longer 
conduct vitality enough into the material man to pro- 
duce digestion, assimulation, circulation, molecular mo- 
tion, or material life, and death to the material man is 
the result. 

Governed by this law is wherein the power of men- 
tal and spiritual healing has virtue. If evil thoughts 
are generated in the brain, if malice and lust and ha- 
tred are raging there, the vital currents which are gen- 
erated in the brain and telegraphed over the nervous 
system into the material man are disturbed and instead 
of these vital currents coming over the nervous system 
from the brain, producing digestion, circulation, molec- 
ular motion, assimilation and vitality in the material 
man, their efficiency is perverted, the digestion, circu- 
lation, molecular motion and the assimilation becomes 
imperfect and the matter which composes the material 
man — chemically speaking — is imperfectly assimilated 
and becomes a foreign substance and a poison to the 
material man and sickness and death of the material 
man is the result. 

If the mind is kept at peace, hatred and malice, 
lust and murder are excluded from its domain and love 
and peace and spiritual thoughts reign within its realm, 
the brain — the dynamo — sends these currents over the 
nervous system in perfect harmony and with full force 
into the material man producing circulation, digestion, 
assimilation, molecular motion, vitality and health in 
the material man. 



Material Man. 57 

Upon the truth of this law depends all the virtue of 
the schools known as New Thought, Christian Science, 
Mental Healing, Divine Science and every other school 
of thought which claims to heal the material man by 
the power of mind and Spirit over matter. 

This was what the Prophets and the Apostles 
taught. This great governing and controlling law of 
the spiritual universe being the Creator and the ma- 
terial universe the Creature, but orthodox theology so 
perverted their teachings, in order to preach a physical 
God to the materialism of man, that the light of the 
spiritual world has almost been lost in the darkness of 
the material world. 

The brain and the nervous system must be kept 
strong and sound in order to collect the vital force from 
the spiritual world and generate it into vitality and 
telegraph it over the nervous system and keep molec- 
ular motion and life at full force in the material man. 
Every atom and molecule of matter is continually in 
motion in the material man. This motion is kept in ac- 
tion by virtue of this life current being sent over the 
nervous system from the brain and this molecular mo- 
tion produced by this nerve current causes the waste 
matter of the material man to be eliminated and all the 
organs of the body to perform their functions and the 
assimulation of his food, circulation and digestion and 
material life to exist in the material man. The mo- 
ment that the nerve current becomes so weak that atom- 
ic and molecular motion ceases to produce vitality and 
life in nerve force, you have death in the material man. 

The sexual organs are at one end and the brain is 
at the other end of the spinal cord — the main trunk of 
the nervous system — which sends these vital currents 
over the nervous system producing nerve force which 
atomic ahd molecular motion produces vitality and life in 



58 The Truth About The Bible 

the material man. Every time the sexes have sexual 
relation the nerve system is weakened ; the power of the 
brain to generate this life current and the nervous sys- 
tem to conduct it into the body of the material man so 
as to produce vitality and life, loses some of its force. 
Hence, the means by which the material man is con- 
ceived means death. Every time the sexes have sexual 
relations they give up part of their material lives. The 
continued practice of the sexual relations and the abuse 
of them weakens and destroys the capacity of the brain 
to generate the life current and the nervous system to 
conduct this current into the material man so as to 
produce digestion, assimilation, circulation, atomic and 
molecular motion and hence sickness and death of the 
material man follows. 

The teachings of the philosophy of this law Moses 
gave to the Hebrews as a Revelation from God, but the 
orthodox theology, through false modesty, has elimi- 
nated it from the church and left the human family in 
darkness to suffer in their ignorance. 

The Mosaic law was the instruction to the Children 
of Israel how to preserve the material as well as the 
spiritual man, his teachings were hygenic as well as 
spiritual. And he taught that the gratification of the 
lust of the material man was death unto the material 
man and anti-spiritual and darkness and night instead 
of light and day to the spiritual man. The Prophets, 
Christ and the Apostles taught the same truth. 

The teachings of Moses, the Prophets, Christ and 
the Apostles, was material law for the material man and 
spiritual law for the spiritual man and that was the mis- 
sion left to the church on earth; the creed that Christ 
gave unto His church was how to preserve the physical 
man and how to appreciate and develop the spiritual 
man and how to conquer the material man and subject 



Material Man 59 

him to the power and influence of the spiritual man. 
But how far so-called orthodox theology has drifted 
from the true landmarks of the real church founded by 
Him — the Great Teacher! 

This material man is conceived in sin — is anti- 
spiritual in his nature and in the very nature of things 
must die. By observing the natural laws he can pro- 
long his life, keep free from sickness and pain and die 
the natural material death. But the church has failed 
to teach him the truth about his material self as well as 
the truth about his spiritual self and hence he has 
violated every material law and every spiritual law and 
the human family is a race of dwarfs and invalids, with 
all kinds of physical imperfections and diseases ma- 
terially and groping in spiritual darkness and night 
spiritually. 

If the church had taught the human race the truth 
materially and spiritually, as Moses, the Prophets, 
Christ and the Apostles taught, the race would have 
been strong, healthy, robust with material life and the 
members thereof would have lived out the natural al- 
lotted time of the material man without sickness and 
pain; with the material man kept under subjection to 
the spiritual man and the material man would have 
died a natural death. 

The material man — male or female — who comes 
into this world of material healthy parents and does not 
violate nature's laws and understands what the laws 
of the sexual organs are and observes them and keeps 
the material man under subjection to the spiritual man, 
has the truth of the material and spiritual creation 
written upon the face. On the contrary, the man or 
woman who is born of parents who violated nature's 
laws and abused the laws of the sexual organs and who 
subjected the spiritual man to the material man, or 



60 The Truth About the Bible. 

who after coming into this world, violates nature's laws 
and abuses the sexual laws and surrenders to the ma- 
terial man, has it written upon the face. 

This vital current which is generated in the brain 
and sent by impulses down the spinal cord and over 
the nervous system and which produces atomic and 
molecular motion in the material man, not only causes 
a waste matter, which has served its purpose in the ma- 
terial body and became foreign substance and poison- 
ous to the material man, to be thrown off, but it causes 
new matter which is taken into the system by way of 
food to be assimilated and to become part of the ma- 
terial life of the material man; this elimination of 
waste and foreign matter and assimilation of new mat- 
ter of the various chemical elements in their proper 
proportions to keep the material man alive is contin- 
ually going on by means of this vital current, which 
is ordinarily called nerve force. As the nervous sys- 
tem grows weaker the means of generating this vital 
current and sending it over the nerve system becomes 
less efficient and the process of the elimination of 
waste matter and foreign substance becomes more and 
more defective and the capacity to assimilate new mat- 
ter in its proper proportions to produce material life 
becomes less efficient until the material man becomes 
self-poisoned from this waste and foreign matter which 
he cannot eliminate and becomes weaker and weaker 
for the want of assimilation of new matter to produce 
material life, and material death results. 

This elimination of waste and foreign matter and 
assimilation of new chemical matter in proportion to 
produce material life is to metabolize and when the 
nervous system is sound and strong and the brain sends 
the vital currents over the nervous system to produce 
strong and perfect metabolism in the body — you have 



Material Man. 61 

a healthy and strong material man. This material man 
is composed of a certain number of chemical material 
elements in certain fixed proportions. The animal 
kingdom, including man, takes these chemical elements 
from the vegetable kingdom into his stomach and they 
are classified and converted into material life by means 
of the nerve force of the vital current generated in the 
brain and sent over the nervous system. In different 
climates this material man needs different proportions 
of these chemical elements. Under certain conditions 
he needs other proportions of these chemical matters. 
In hot climates he needs more fruits and vegetables 
because they possess water, — the chemical elements of 
oxygen and hydrogen — to keep his blood cool. In cold 
climates he needs more of the fats which produce ani- 
mal heat. The man who does physical labor needs 
more nitrogen which produces muscle. 

The man who does mental work needs more phos- 
phorus, which acts as a conductor for thought which 
is generated in the brain and which is burned out by 
means of too much mental effort. The Creator pro- 
vided all of these laws in His wisdom and intelligent 
creation; in the hot climates the fruits and vegetables 
grow abundantly,, for man there needs them as a food. 
In cold climates the fish and the animals that inhabit 
these regions — over which man was given dominion — 
possess oil and fat abundantly for food for man, which 
will produce animal heat when assimilated into his 
body. The vegetable kingdom possesses the various 
chemical elements necessary to produce physical lifa 
when eaten and assimilated by the material man and 
the animal kingdom. The material creation — the cos- 
mos — demonstrated wisdom and intelligence in the cre- 
ative force. It is order not chaos. 



62 The Truth About the Bible. 

It is with this universal law of order as applied to 
the material man which the Mosaic law dealt. And 
hence the Jew was the healthiest of all the races of 
the ages. The orthodox Jew was taught by the Mosaic 
law the rules and regulations and the natural laws 
which govern the material man as well as the spiritual 
laws which govern the spiritual man. 

He was taught that sexual abuse meant death to 
the physical man — he was taught the purpose of the 
sexual organs and the sexual laws of the sexes. 

But orthodox theology has departed far from the 
teachings of Moses, the Prophets, Christ and the Apos- 
tles. The things that they taught and upon which the 
Great Teacher founded His church have become an un- 
known quantity to so-called orthodox theology. 

The human family — generation after generati ,n — 
has been growing up in ignorance as to the material 
man and the laws which govern him and without a true 
conception of the spiritual man and a knowledge of the 
differentiation between the spiritual and the material 
man. By reason of this ignorance the human family — 
the material man — has lived for lust and has b .en 
taught that the human birth was spiritual and has over- 
indulged the sexual desires both naturally and artifi- 
cially, with all kinds of abuses, until the nervous system 
and the brain — the dynamo — which generates vitality 
from the spiritual world and sends it over the nervous 
system producing life in the material man, has be- 
come diseased and degenerated and the human family 
has become a race of mental and material degenerates. 

That is what Christ meant in the parable of the 
prodigal son. "He has wasted his substance in riotous 
living," i. e., has wasted his material life, destroyed his 
nervous system and the power of his brain to generate 
vitality over his nervous system into the material man 



Material Man. 63 

by indulging his lustful nature. "He came to him- 
self," i. e., he became conscious of the deadly nature of 
lust and how it had destroyed his material life; and 
that there was another life — the spiritual life — and 
that he had another self — the spiritual man — another 
personality which did not partake of the nature of the 
material man. "I will arise and go to my father," i. e., 
the spiritual man will deny the lust of the material man 
and enter into the joys of spiritual things. "I" — the 
spiritual man — "will deny and forsake the material 
man with his lustful nature and go to my father" — 
the "Great I Am that I Am." "For in my father's 
house are many mansions" — spiritual power and life. 

The material man approaches material death in 
proportion as the generative power of the brain and 
the nervous system declines and fails to carry the life 
current into the material man. When this generative 
power of the brain and nerve force is being conducted 
with full force into the material man, he is in full 
force and effect with material life and at war with the 
spiritual man. Fight and war — blood and murder — 
rage within him. This carnal nature is being every 
moment sent in full currents from the brain to the sex- 
ual organs and from the sexual organs to the brain. 
Eunuchs do not create war, lead crusaders of death, 
destroy empires and drench the earth in blood. The 
female with the ovaries removed does not gather the 
male within her clutches and fangs and bleed him mor- 
ally and spiritually to death and then murder him 
through lustful jealousy. 

That is what Christ meant when He said, "Suffer 
little children to come unto me and forbid them not for 
such is the kingdom of heaven," i. e., they had not 
reached that age when they were conscious of the sex- 
ual laws — and their sexual natures and lustful desires 



64 The Truth About the Bible. 

and power were not raging within them and destroying 
their spiritual nature and spiritual life. 

Oh, that the theologians and priestcraft would 
only get a glimmer of light on the teachings of Moses, 
the Prophets and the Man of Galilee and the Apostles — 
and teach the human race just one iota of the truth of 
the divine things. 



CHAPTER VII. 

The Spiritual Man. 

In Numbers 16:22, we are told: "And they fell 
upon their faces and said : God, the God of the spirits 
of all flesh, shall one sin and wilt thou be wroth with 
the congregation?" We note here that there is a dif- 
ference between Spirit and flesh and that the inspired 
writer calls the Universal Intelligence which the ortho- 
dox world terms God — "the God of the spirits of all 
flesh." Meaning, of course, "the spirits of all men," 
i. e., that there is in every material man a personal 
spiritual man, and that God the Universal Personal In- 
telligence is the Creator of the personal spiritual man. 
That is to say, this personal spiritual man is a part of 
the Universal Intelligence individualized into the per- 
sonal spiritual nature, and it was this spiritual man 
that God created in His "own image." That is to say, 
that is what the Bible means when it says : "God is a 
Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in 
spirit and in truth." That is to say, that the creative 
intelligence is a Spirit and that He created the spiritual 
man in His own image ; that is, with the same spiritual 
nature of the Universal Intelligence. This spir- 
itual man has his spiritual senses by which 
and through which he knows, understands and com- 
prehends the spiritual universe just as the material 
man has his physical senses by which and through 

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which he comprehends and understands the material 
universe and the material creation. 

The spiritual man whom God created in His own 
image is subject to spiritual laws and cannot with his 
spiritual senses understand and comprehend the ma- 
terial creation. Neither can the material man with 
his material senses understand and comprehend the 
spiritual universe — and the spiritual creation. 

God, the Universal Intelligence, when He com- 
municates to the spiritual man that He created in His 
own image, subject to the spiritual laws, communicates 
to his spiritual nature by and through the spiritual 
senses by spiritual law and not by means of the natural 
law. When man — the spiritual man whom God cre- 
ated in His own image with a spiritual nature — com- 
munes with the Universal Personal Intelligence — God 
— he does so through his spiritual senses and by means 
of spiritual and not natural law. 

That is what Christ meant when He said : "That 
my kingdom is not of this world," i. e., His kingdom 
was spiritual and not material and that His kingdom 
was subject to spiritual and not natural law. When He 
said, "Forgive them, for they know not what they do," 
He had in mind this same truth, i. e., they — His ac- 
cusers — were trying to know the Universal Personal 
Intelligence — the spiritual universe through and by 
means of their physical senses and their carnal mind; 
that the material man was trying to know the spiritual 
universe which was impossible, and that the material 
man with his material senses — in his efforts to know 
the spiritual Creator — made a material god, the 
object of his own creation, to fit the physical senses 
of the material man. Christ had the same truth and 
spiritual law in mind when He said "I, of Myself, can 
do nothing ; but all things are possible with the Father 



The Spiritual Man. 67 

who sent Me." Of course, meaning by "I, Myself," 
He — Jesus — the material man, not Christ the Perfect 
Spiritual Creation. He intended conveying to man by 
this expression that He — the physical man, Jesus — 
was without power; that He — the physical man— was 
a part of the material creation and was without power 
in material things; but that He — the Christ — the 
Perfect Spiritual Idea and Creation of the Universal 
Spiritual Intelligence, was absolutely in harmony with 
the spiritual universe and its laws and that all things 
were possible with the Father who sent Him — the Spir- 
itual Perfection of all spiritual creation. 

It was by this spiritual law which is separate and 
distinct from all natural law that Moses — the Prophets 
and the Apostles — knew God. It was through this 
spiritual law that they communed with God ; the spirit- 
ual man is a part of the spiritual universe and is gov- 
erned by spiritual law and not material law, and by 
means of this spiritual law the spiritual man can com- 
mune with and know the Spiritual Universe — God. 

It was the spiritual man — Abraham — through his 
spiritual senses,by means of spiritual law and not the 
material man — Abraham — who communed with God. 
It was the spiritual man — Jacob — by means of the spir- 
itual law and with his spiritual senses, who wrestled 
with the angels and communed with and knew God. It 
was the spiritual man — Moses — by means of the spirit- 
ual senses and spiritual law who communed with God 
and talked with God. It was not the material man — 
Moses — with his material senses who saw and talked 
with God. It was Moses — the spiritual man on Mt. 
Sinai and not Moses the material man who beheld the 
Glory and the Power of God — the Spiritual Universe. 
It was Moses the spiritual man that God revealed Him- 
self to and not Moses the material man. 



68 The Truth About the Bible. 

After Adam and Eve — the first man and the first 
woman — had satisfied their sexual lust and God spoke 
to them, it was the spiritual man and the spiritual 
woman — their spiritual personalities and not the ma- 
terial man and woman whom God addressed. It was 
their Spirits that He spoke unto and not their material 
natures ; and, it was their spiritual natures and spirit- 
ual personalities by means of the spiritual senses and 
the spiritual law that were conscious of the sin that the 
material man had committed. It was their spiritual 
natures by means of the spiritual senses that knew good 
from evil and knew that they were naked. The ma- 
terial man and woman — Adam and Eve — had no spirit- 
ual consciousness that the material man had violated 
any spiritual law when they had satisfied their sexual 
lust, but it was their spiritual natures and personali- 
ties that were conscious that the material man was at 
enmity with the spiritual man ; that the laws of the ma- 
terial man were at war with the laws of the spiritual 
man. 

It was by this same spiritual law and by means of 
the spiritual senses that the Prophets communed with 
God and God revealed Himself unto them and they were 
able to see, to understand and to foretell spiritual 
things and spiritual truths. It was by means of this 
spiritual law and the spiritual senses that Ezekiel eom-> 
muned with God and God spoke unto him and he saw 
the dry bones turned into moving creatures. It was 
the spiritual man — Ezekiel — and not the material man 
who saw these things. By this same spiritual law and 
the spiritual senses Elijah was translated showing the 
absolute supremacy of the spiritual universe and the 
spiritual law over material creation and natural law. 

It was David — the spiritual man by means of the 
spiritual law and the spiritual senses — who knew God 



The Spiritual Mam 69 

and the Spiritual Universe and was conscious of the 
sins of David — the material man. David — the ma- 
terial man — followed the law of lust and the carnal 
mind. David — the spiritual man — knew God and the 
Spiritual Universe. 

Paul saw the Savior with his spiritual eyes. It was 
not Paul — the material man — unto whom Christ ap- 
peared and spoke. Paul — the material man — was per- 
secuting the Saints. Paul — the spiritual man — saw 
with spiritual eyes, the vision of spiritual things and 
became Paul the Apostle and understood the spiritual 
law and spiritual things and communed with God 
through and by means of the spiritual law and spiritual 
senses. John saw the New Jerusalem — the Holy City 
— not with material eyes, but with spiritual eyes. It 
was John — the spiritual man — to whom God revealed 
Himself ; not John the material man. 

This Spiritual Universe and material creation are 
governed entirely by different laws. The spiritual man 
and the material man are different creations. The 
spiritual man has his spiritual mind and spiritual 
laws. The material man has his material mind — ma- 
tersial senses — and is governed by material laws. 

The spiritual universe is absolutely supreme over 
the material creation. The spiritual universe is a Uni- 
versal Personal Intelligence , the Creator. The ma- 
terial universe is governed by material laws — and is 
the creature. 

The spiritual is supreme over the material. 

The casting of the Hebrew children into the fire 
without injury or hurt was the demonstration of the 
supremacy of the spiritual over the material creation 
and the spiritual law over the material law. When 
God commanded Moses to pick up the serpent and it 
turned to a rod and to throw it down again and it would 



70 The Truth About the Bible. 

return to a serpent, demonstrated the truth of the su- 
premacy of spiritual over the material creation. The 
translation of Elijah demonstrated the same spiritual 
law and truth. The appearance of Christ in the upper 
chamber to His apostles demonstrated the supremacy 
of Christ — the Perfect Spiritual Personality — over 
Jesus, the material man. The Resurrection demon- 
strated the same law and truth. 

When Christ raised Lazarus from the dead He in- 
voked the supremacy of the spiritual over the material 
creation and demonstrated the truth that the Universal 
Personal Intelligence was absolutely supreme over the 
material creation and that it was Lazarus, the material 
man, that was dead according to material law, but that 
Lazarus, the spiritual man, still lived; that Lazarus, 
the spiritual man, a spiritual personality, still existed 
in spiritual consciousness as a part of the Spiritual 
Universe according to the spiritual senses and spiritual 
law. 

The supremacy of the Universal Personal Spiritual 
Intelligence was not only revealed to man through rev- 
elation, but is demonstrated by natural law. All ma- 
terial creation demonstrates a Universal Intelligence 
as the creative force : the mineral, the vegetable and the 
animal kingdoms of the material creation are governed 
by certain fixed rules and laws — by system and not 
chaos — and all demonstrate that the creative force was 
an intelligent power. 

The material creation is governed by the law of 
the survival of the fittest which is contrary to the gov- 
erning force of the spiritual universe and spiritual law 
and to spiritual things — demonstrating that the 
material creation is contrary to and at war with the 
spiritual universe and to spiritual things. 



The Spiritual Man. 71 

The spiritual man is a separate and distinct per- 
sonality from the material man. He is subject to the 
spiritual law and to the spiritual senses; whereas, the 
material man is subject to the material law and the ma- 
terial senses. 

The spiritual universe is everywhere present — it is 
the Universal Personal Intelligence — God. The spir- 
itual man under spiritual laws and with spiritual senses 
is conscious of the ever presence of the Universal Per- 
sonal Spiritual Intelligence — God. In proportion as 
the spiritual man opens his spiritual eyes, spiritual 
ears, and spiritual senses and subjects his spiritual per- 
sonality to the spiritual law; in that proportion does 
he become more conscious of the ever presence of the 
Universal Personal Spiritual Intelligence — God ; in that 
proportion does he become spiritual and commune wiui 
God; and as he becomes more and more spiritual 
through his spiritual senses and under spiritual law, he 
denies more and more the material man and the ma- 
terial law and becomes less and less carnal minded and 
less and less subject to the material creation and the 
material man. The more the spiritual man becomes 
spiritual and under the spiritual law and subject to 
the spiritual senses, the less power the material man 
and the material creation have over the spiritual man 
and thus by means of the spiritual law and the spiritual 
senses, the spiritual man can become more and more 
conscious of the spiritual universe around him and flee 
from the bondage of the material man and material 
creation. Spirituality is a continual development of 
the spiritual man by means of the spiritual law and 
the spiritual senses; a continual development of life 
and freedom. The material man is Death, but the spir- 
itual man is Life and Light with endless and eternal 
growing Life and Light, 



72 The Truth About the Bible. 

The perfection of this spiritual life in perfect har- 
mony with the Universal Personal Spiritual Intellgence 
was represented in Christ, the Perfect Spiritual Con- 
ception, and not in Jesus, the material man. That is 
what Christ meant when He said, "He that has seen 
Me has seen the Father who sent Me"; that is, the 
spiritual man as a spiritual personality has seen and 
known Me — the Christ — through his spiritual senses 
and spiritual consciousness ; has seen the spiritual uni- 
verse with his spiritual eyes ; has taken into his spirit- 
ual consciousness the ever presence of the Universal 
Personal Spiritual Intelligence — God. When Christ 
said, "I and My Father are one/' He meant that He 
was in perfect harmony with the spiritual laws of the 
Universal Personal Spiritual Intelligence. When he 
said, "I came that you might have life and light and 
have it more abundant," He meant that man, the spir- 
itual personality, might enter into a full and complete 
spiritual consciousness through the spiritual senses 
and spiritual laws with the ever presence of 
the spirtiual universe, the Universal Personal In- 
telligence — God. And when He said, "He that be- 
lieveth on me shall never perish, but shall have ever- 
lasting life," He meant that the spiritual man with his 
spiritual senses and spiritual understanding through 
spiritual law, who denied the material man, the carnal 
law and the carnal mind and entered into the complete 
and full consciousness of the ever presence of the Uni- 
versal Personal Spiritual Intelligence — God — should 
grow in Light and Life — Spiritual Light and Spiritual 
Life — throughout the eternal ages. 

Spirit is Life and Light — the Eternal Life and the 
Eternal Light. The material man, the material cre- 
ation is darkness and death and destruction. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

The Seed of the Serpent and the Seed of the 

Woman. 

The correct understanding of Genesis 3 : 14 to 16 is 
absolutely necessary to comprehend the remainder of 
the Bible. The whole mystery of the Bible is locked 
up in these three verses. They are the key that un- 
locks the truth to God's word and His revelation to 
man. "The seed of the serpent/' mentioned in verse 
15 of said chapter is the physical man who is conceived 
in lust and the serpent is "Satan" — the Devil; that is 
to say, the lustful nature of the physical man which rep- 
resents the spiritual attributes of the Fallen Angels — 
who rebelled against God's kingdom and were cast out 
of heaven. "The seed of the woman," mentioned in 
verse 15 of said chapter, is the spiritual man whom 
God created in His own image and is represented in the 
Immaculate Conception of Christ centuries thereafter; 
Christ being Perfect Spirit manifested in the flesh 
without lust and therefore without sin. The spiritual 
man whom God created in His image was manifested in 
the flesh through the law of lust of the material man 
and therefore took into his spiritual nature the attri- 
butes of the law of lust of the Fallen Angels who re- 
belled against God's kingdom and therefore the neces- 
sity of the Atonement by the Christ who was Perfect 
Spirit manifested in the flesh without the law of lust. 

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74 The Truth About the Bible. 

The correct understanding of this verse is necessary to 
understand the dual creation — the "Fall of Man" ; the 
"Atonement" and the "Redemption." And the correct 
interpretation of this verse declares marriage to be a 
fleshly institution — and the conception of the physical 
man anti-spiritual; yet, priestcraft and theologians 
have made marriage and the physical conception and 
birth a sacrament of the church and spiritual in their 
natures. Of course, this idea came from the pagan 
religions — which appealed to the taste and lust of the 
physical senses of natural man and was adopted into 
Christianity by the priesthood and theologians — teach- 
ing a physical God to the physical senses of the natural 
man. "The wolf and the lamb shall feed together and 
the lion shall eat straw like the bullock and the dust 
shall be the serpent's meat" (Isaiah 65:25). The ser- 
pent here is the same serpent mentioned in Genesis 
3 :15, and means the lust of the physical man — his con- 
ception and birth. "Ye serpents; ye generation of 
vipers; how can ye escape the damnation of hell" 
(Matt. 23:33). Here Christ refers to the same ser- 
pent, meaning, of course, the nature of the material 
man who is conceived in lust. And he asks how can the 
spiritual man who has taken into his spiritual nature 
the lust of the physical man escape hell; that is, how 
can he escape spiritual death? The "Serpent" mean- 
ing, of course, the lust of the physical man which rep- 
resents the spiritual nature of the Fallen Angels. 

Then Saul, who also is Paul, filled with 
the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him and said: 
"Of full subtility and all mischief, thou child 
of the devil ; thou enemy of all righteousness, 
wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the 
Lord" (Acts 13:10). Here Paul refers to the nature 
of the physical man who is conceived in lust as a child 



Seed of the Serpent, Seed of the Woman. 75 

of the devil ; thereby meaning that the lust of the nat- 
ural man represents the spiritual state of all that is 
anti-God and anti-spiritual ; and the evil works of this 
world are the children of the lust of the natural man 
whom Paul terms the devil. "He that committeth sin 
is of the devil, for the devil sinneth from the beginning. 
For this purpose the Son of God was manifested that 
He might destroy the works of the devil" (1 John 3:8). 
Here John refers to the lust of the natural man as "the 
devil" and declares that he sinned in the beginning 
when Adam and Eve yielded to the lust of the natural 
man and for the purpose of destroying his power in the 
spiritual nature and consciousness of the spiritual man 
whom God created in His image, the Son of God was 
manifested in the flesh without lust or the passions of 
the natural man. "They shall lick the dust like a ser- 
pent ; they shall move out of their holes like worms of 
the earth ; they shall be afraid of the Lord our God and 
shall fear because of thee" (Micah 7:17). Here the 
Prophet refers to the heathen nations who represent the 
physical man as anti-spiritual and declares that this 
physical man who was conceived in lust shall lick dust 
like a serpent. It is the serpent here which represents 
the antispiritual nature of the conception of the physi- 
cal man. "And the God of peace shall bruise Satan 
under your feet shortly" (Romans 16:20) . Here Paul 
treats Satan as the serpent who deceived the woman in 
the garden of Eden, i. e., he declares Satan to be the 

lust of the natural man and that God will destroy this 
lustful nature from the spiritual life of His children. 
That is, He will cast out the devil as Christ did when 
He was on earth. "Forasmuch then as the children are 
partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise 
took part of the same; that through death He might 



76 The Truth About the Bible. 

destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the 
devil" (Heb. 2:14). Here Paul declares that Christ 
was manifested in the flesh without lust that he might 
destroy the power of death — the devil — in the spiritual 
nature and consciousness of the spiritual man. The 
"devil" here mentioned means the same poisonous rep- 
tile mentioned in Genesis 3:15, the lust of the physical 
man which is spiritual death. "And there was a war in 
heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the 
dragon ; and the dragon fought and his angels and pre- 
vailed not; neither was their place found any more in 
Heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old 
serpent called the Devil; and Satan which deceiveth 
the whole world ; he was cast out into the earth and his 
angels were cast out with him. And I heard a loud 
voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation and 
strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of 
His Christ for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, 
which accused them before our God day and night. And 
they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by 
the word of their testimony; and they loved not their 
lives unto death" (Rev. 12:7-11). Here John in his 
vision saw the same dragon, the same serpent, that ap- 
peared to the woman in the garden of Eden — the lust of 
the physical man — and he and his angels fought against 
Michael and his angels ; that is, the power and the lust 
of the natural man fought against the spiritual nature 
and power of the spiritual man; and the old dragon 
called the Devil and Satan was cast out of heaven ; i. e., 
the lust of the natural man was cast out of the spiritual 
nature of the spiritual man through the spiritual and 
saving power and atonement of the Christ, who was 
manifested in the flesh without the lust of the natural 
man. We have thus far been dealing with the lust of 
natural man who is conceived in lust and who is con- 



Seed of the Serpent, Seed of the Woman. 77 

trary to God and God's spiritual kingdom and the pow- 
er of the natural man and his law of lust over the spir- 
itual man which is manifested in the flesh by the law 
of lust. But God said in Genesis 3:15, that he would 
put enmity between the seed of the serpent and the seed 
of the woman, i.e., enmity between the natural man who 
is conceived in lust and the spiritual man whom God 
created in His image and who partook of the nature of 
the natural man by being manifested in the flesh by 
virtue of the law of lust and who would be reconciled 
to God by the atonement of the Christ who would be 
manifested in the flesh and born of a woman without 
the law of lust. "And a voice from heaven saying, this 
is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased" (John 
3:17). This was the Christ and was the seed of the 
the woman referred to in Genesis 3:15 and whom God 
said that He would put enmity between His spiritual 
nature and the lustful nature of the physical man. "The 
field is the world, the good seed are the children of the 
kingdom ; but the tares are the children of the wicked 
one " (Matt. 13:38). Here Christ declares the chil- 
dren whom God made in His image and who are re- 
deemed from the lust by the atonement are the children 
of the kingdom, but the tares are the children of the 
wicked one , i. e., the fruit of the lust of the physical 
man. "The Lord has sworn in truth unto David; he 
will not turn from it; of the fruit of thy body will I 
set upon thy throne" (Psalm 132:11). "The fruit of 
thy body," was the Christ who was to be conceived of 
a woman without a natural father and who was to sit 
on the spiritual throne of God's kingdom. He was the 
seed of the woman referred to in Genesis 3 :15 and Who 
was to be the Redeemer of God's children created in His 
image and manifested in the flesh by the law of lust. 
"Therefore, the Lord himself shall give you a sign: 



78 The Truth About the Bible. 

behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall 
call his name Immanuel" (Isa. 7:14). Immanuel was 
the seed of the woman referred to in Genesis 3:15 and 
who was to be the Chief Priest and Redeemer of all of 
God's children whom God created in His image who 
avail themselves of His atoning and saving power. 
"Behold! a virgin shall be with child and shall bring 
forth a son" (Matt. 1:23). This Son was the Christ 
prophesied of by the prophets who would come to re- 
deem God's children from bondage and slavery to the 
natural man. He was the seed of the woman men- 
tioned in Genesis 3:15. He is the High Priest of the 
spiritual man — the Atoning and Saving Power of the 
spiritual man from the carnal nature of the natural 
man. He was conceived without lust and manifested 
in the flesh without a natural father and the law of 
lust never entered his perfect spiritual nature nor de- 
stroyed His divine power; hence, He could cast out 
devils, i. e., He could destroy the power of lust and the 
natural man within the consciousness of the spiritual 
man — who had been manifested in the flesh by the law 
of lust and the carnal mind of the natural man. God 
put enmity between the spiritual nature of God's spir- 
itual children saved by His atoning power and the lust 
of the natural man, which represents the anti-spiritual 
nature — power and nature of the fallen angels who re- 
belled against God's spiritual kingdom. 

Marriage, and the conception of the physical man 
and his birth, is in conflict with God's spiritual nature 

His Kingdom, His Christ and His spiritual children. 

You cannot harmonize the nature of the natural man 
and the nature of the spiritual man. All of the priest- 
hood of the ages and the theologians of all time may 
declare marriage to be holy and the natural conception 
and birth spiritual, but they cannot make it a spiritual 



Seed of the Serpent, Seed of the Woman. 79 

truth in God's spiritual kingdom. The correct under- 
standing and comprehension that the natural concep- 
tion and birth is contrary to God's spiritual kingdom 
and that the spiritual man is at war with the natural 
man is the key which unlocks the door to God's spiritual 
temple and kingdom. 

The "Seed of the Serpent" is the material man 
with his nature of lust; the "Seed of the Woman" is 
The Christ manifested in the flesh without a natural 
father; and God's spiritual children of whom Christ is 
the Chief Priest. 



CHAPTER IX. 

The Carnal Mind and the Spiritual Mind. 

Man has a carnal mind and a spiritual mind. Paul 
says that of our warfare is not carnal but mighty 
through God to the putting down of strongholds ; cast- 
ing down imaginations and every high thing that exalt- 
eth itself against the knowledge of God and bring into 
captivity every thought to the obedience to Christ. 
Here the Apostle clearly recognizes the natural and 
the spiritual man and this dual man — the material and 
spiritual man — has the dual mind, the carnal or ma- 
terial mind, and the spiritual mind. 

These two minds or dual intellectual natures may 
be termed "innate and educated intelligence." The in- 
nate mind is born with the spiritual man. It is a part 
of the intelligence of the Universal Personal Spiritual 
Intelligence. The child, the mature man and the old 
man has this innate intelligence governing his spiritual 
nature and personality in full force at all times. Youth, 
middle age nor old age does not change it. It never 
sleeps and is always present as a governing force and 
guiding power of man's spiritual personality. 

The educated mind or the carnal mind is the prod- 
uct of the material man and changes with the material 
man. It is the product of the atomic friction of matter 
and the chemical properties of matter as energized by 

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The Carnal Mind and the Spiritual Mind. 81 

spiritual force and intelligence. These two minds co- 
ordinate and reflect upon each other and influence each 
other. The educated mind reflects upon the innate 
mind through the nerve cells — the unit of material life 
— by means of the co-ordination of the spiritual and 
material creation and the innate or spiritual mind re- 
flects upon the material or educated mind by means of 
co-ordination and energizes through the nerve cells and 
the nerve system producing material life in the ma- 
terial man. As long as there is life in the material 
man there is co-ordination going on between the spir- 
itual mind and the carnal mind or the innate and the 
educated mind. 

"Nature," "sub-consciousness," "intuition" and 
"instinct" are terms frequently used by writers in 
describing the innate mind which is nothing other than 
the spiritual mind or spiritual intelligence. This spir- 
itual intelligence or spiritual mind interprets the spir- 
tual senses and spiritual law and discerns and knows 
spiritual things and suggests and guides man while in 
his dual existence to conform himself with natural and 
spiritual laws so as to preserve his dual existence in- 
tact. The eduacted mind or the carnal mind grows and 
develops with the material senses of the physical man. 
The educated mind deals with the physical senses of the 
material man and the material creation. This educated 
or carnal mind cannot know the spiritual things and 
comprehend and understand spiritual intelligence. It 
has no discernment of the spiritual senses. It only 
discerns and knows the laws of the carnal man and the 
material creation. The innate or spiritual mind knows 
and discerns spiritual things, spiritual laws — the spir- 
ual senses and the spiritual universe; hence these 
two minds are constantly at war with each other and 
that is what Paul meant when he said: "The carnal 



82 The Truth About the Bible. 

mind is at enmity with God." And that is what the 
.Dible means when it teaches us that the carnal mind 
cannot know God. It was with this spiritual mind 
that Paul saw Christ, and John saw the New Jerusa- 
lem, the Holy City; and this is what the Bible means 
when it teaches us that spiritual things are spiritually 
discerned. 

As man in his dual nature surrenders to the carnal 
mind or the educated mind and permits it with its phys- 
ical senses to control and dominate over the innate or 
spiritual mind and to close upon the spiritual senses — 
to that extent does he become carnal minded, material- 
istic and less spiritual ; to that extent does the material 
man with material laws dominate over the spiritual 
man and the spiritual senses and the spiritual law. 

In proportion as man denies the carnal mind with 
his physical senses and the natural law and opens up 
his spiritual mind with his spiritual senses and invites 
the spiritual universe in and partakes of spiritual in- 
telligence, in that proportion does he deny the carnal 
mind and reduce the power of the material man over 
the spiritual man and become more spiritual minded. 
Moses and the Prophets had to deal with these two 
minds. The Children of Israel would deny the spirit- 
ual mind and partake of the carnal things ; they would 
close the eyes of the spiritual mind and open the eyes 
of the carnal mind and Moses and the Prophets would 
have to cry aloud, "Back ! back ! Israel to your tents." 
Moses and the Prophets were continually, in the name 
of the "Great I Am That I Am," demanding that the 
Children of Israel deny the carnal mind and open up 
the senses of the spiritual mind and invite into their 
consciousness the presence of the Universal Personal 
Spiritual Intelligence — God. David, of all the house of 
Israel, seems to have had the greatest battle with these 



The Carnal Mind and the Spiritual Mind, 83 

two minds — the war between them seems to have been 
continually raging within him; today he was yielding 
to the carnal mind with all the power of his fleshly lust 
and tomorrow he was crying out for spiritual power, 
to enable him to deny the carnal mind and the material 
man and open his spiritual eyes and spiritual vision 
that he might see, understand and enjoy the ever pres- 
ence of the spiritual ever-living God. 

The carnal mind is of a material nature and the 
source of its evil is located in the sexual organs — the 
means by which the material man is conceived and 
created. The brain and the sexual organs are part of 
the same general system and being connected by the 
spinal cord co-ordinate and control the entire 
material man. When the child is born he has so many 
nerve cells within him; these nerve cells are the unit 
of material life and they are stored away as a source 
through which and by which spiritual intelligence uses 
them to generate material life during the natural life 
of the man. As the child grows into maturity, these 
nerve cells are taken up and expanded throughout the 
body. They act as conductors, just as wires act as 
conductors for electricity, for the innate intelligence of 
the universal mind to communicate power and energy 
into the material man causing atomic molecular mo- 
tion and metabolism in the body. This natural science 
terms "nerve energy." As this nerve energy or force 
continues to operate in the body and cause material life 
by means of atomic or molecular motion a continual 
combustion takes place in the body and these nerve 
cells are consumed. If the material man lives out his 
natural life without sickness or disease, he lives until 
the reserve force of these nerve cells has been con- 
sumed and there is no longer a supply of nerve 
cells for the innate intelligence of the universal mind to 



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telegraph life and energy over into the material man — 
then the material man dies. 

Nerve tissue may perish and rebuild with the 
other changes of the body — but nerve cells — the unit 
of organic animal life do not rebuild. When consumed 
dissolution takes place. 

All material creation is governed by spiritual law 
— the creating force. The mineral kingdom is lower 
than the vegetable kingdom in the essence of physical 
life and the vegetable kingdom is lower than the animal 
kingdom of physical life. The various elements of 
matter are proportioned in organic life in the vegetable 
kingdom so as to be assimilated by the animal king- 
dom according to material organic law and to produce 
physical life in the animal kingdom. The mineral 
kingdom is foreign to the animal kingdom and accord- 
ing to organic physical law cannot be assimilated by 
the animal kingdom into organic material life. It is 
poisonous to the animal kingdom and destructive to the 
physical life in the animal kingdom. When the animal 
kingdom takes matter into the material system or body 
that is not organic and life-giving and not in proportion 
so as to be assimilated, it becomes a foreign substance 
and poisonous. When a man, a part of the animal 
kingdom, fails to assimilate matter taken into his body, 
it becomes poisonous. It is termed "autotoxemia," 
self-poisoning. 

The life-giving force which causes assimilation to 
go on in man and the animal kingdom and physical life 
to be produced is conducted over the nerve system. 
This law of assimilation of matter into physical life 
shows and demonstrates that there is an Intelligence 
directing the law governing the material creation. 

The properties of this material creation and the 
functions of organic material life constitute the carnal 



The Carnal Mind and the Spiritual Mind, 85 

mind and are foreign to spiritual life — and no part of 
spiritual intelligence. 

This carnal mind ebbs and flows with the tide of 
matter and organic material life. It differentiates the 
sexes in the material creation — the male from the fe- 
male — it is in the sexual organs and is controlled by the 
brain. The voice of the male as it differentiates from 
the voice of the female is due to the sexual organs and 
the carnal mind and that which differentiates the female 
and her voice from the male is due to her sexual organs 
and her carnal mind. The male's and female's carnal 
minds — on account of the sexual organs — are opposite 
of each other and therefore attract each other. It is 
the carnal mind and not the spiritual mind that draws 
the male and the female together and cause the repro- 
duction of the material man and thus the material man 
is conceived in sin and contrary to the law of the Spirit 
and is in rebellion against the spiritual universe. 

This carnal mind is more fiendish in the female 
than in the male and more brutal in the male than in 
the female. Where is a student of human nature who 
has not observed the mighty ocean of f iendishness as it 
roared and tossed and foamed and beat and raged in 
the sexual prejudice, jealousy and passion of the female 
when she thought she was losing her control and power 
over the male that appealed to her carnal mind and 
sexual nature ? Where is the student of human nature 
who has not observed the male when his animal nature 
and sexual lust were aroused to a consuming fire by 
the female that appealed to his brutal nature — who 
would not sacrifice finance, social position, honor and 
even life itself to obliterate all between him and her and 
yield his all — honor, morals, and spiritual life to the 
fangs of her deadly poisoning? 



86 The Truth About the Bible. 

This carnal mind is the "Mortal Mind" of the 
school called Christian Science and is the "Devil" of 
orthodox theology. It has no life within itself ; it is of a 
material nature and when dissolution takes place, 
ceases to co-ordinate with the innate or spiritual mind. 
There may be fallen spirits of other creations who re- 
belled against the laws of the spiritual universe, but it 
is not their presence, but the ever presence of this 
carnal mind, co-ordinating with the spiritual mind 
while the material man and the spiritual man are in- 
tact, that constitutes the source of evil and the ever- 
living Devil during the life of the material man. It is 
a personal presence and is in conflict with the spiritual 
nature of every human being living in the flesh. 

The consciousness of the presence of this carnal 
mind is the consciousness of an ever present evil power. 
Heaven and hell begin here while man exists in his 
dual state. Heaven and riell are states of conscious- 
ness. As you take into your state of consciousness spir- 
ituality and spiritual life, you are entering into the 
spiritual kingdom. As you take into your state of con- 
sciousness the nature of the carnal mind-darkness and 
death, you are entering into Hell. He who permits evil 
to enter his state of consciousness is shutting out spirit- 
ual light and life and closing the doors of Heaven 
against himself. He who shuts out the state of the car- 
nal mind — darkness and evil — from his spiritual con- 
sciousness, is opening the door to the spiritual temple 
and taking in spiritual life and light into his conscious- 
ness. 

The gates of the New Jerusalem are swinging open 
to him; that is what is meant in the story of Lazarus 
when the Bible teaches us : "There is a great gulf be- 
tween me and thee." One was in the state of conscious- 
ness of the darkness and the other in the state of con- 



The Carnal Mind and the Spiritual Mind. 87 

sciousness of the state of light. That is what Christ 
meant when he said : "The kingdom of heaven is with- 
in you." That is, that you have within your state of 
consciousness, or spiritual light and understanding that 
which enables you to understand and appreciate and 
comprehend spiritual things and spiritual truths. That 
is what the Bible means when it teaches the presence 
of a personal devil — that is, a state of consciousness 
clouded with darkness by the carnal mind and nature 
so that spiritual light is excluded and darkness rather 
than light reigns in the state of consciousness. Heav- 
en and Hell begin here with man while in his dual state 
and work out their laws in man's state of consciousness 
throughout the ages of eternity. 

To the extent that man takes into his state of con- 
sciousness the carnal mind and darkness here, to that 
extent does that state of darkness enter into his state of 
consciousness when the dissolution takes place and his 
spiritual personality is released from co-ordination 
with the material man. And as he enters the spiritual 
realm, this state of consciousness is his state of con- 
sciousness there and he must work out his spiritual 
state of consciousness according to spiritual laws and 
spiritual life. The law of compensation of the carnal 
and spiritual mind — of material error and spiritual 
truth — is unerring and just. Man cannot enter the 
state of consciousness of murder and death and at the 
same time enjoy the state of consciousness of spiritual 
truth, light and life. When he takes into his state of 
consciousness lust, hatred, malice, greed, murder and 
death he must pay the penalty to the spiritual law of 
life and light. 

Salvation is the final overcoming of material error 
by spiritual truth; of carnal darkness by spiritual 
light; of material death by spiritual life. It is the 



88 The Truth About the Bible. 

triumph of the spiritual life over death ; a state of spir- 
itual consciousness of light and life over a state of 
carnal consciousness of darkness and death — the tri- 
umph of Spirit over matter. That is what the Cruci- 
fixion and the Resurrection mean. 

This carnal mind is destructive of spiritual life. 
That is what the Bible means when it teaches us "It is 
hard for the rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven" ; 
that is, his nature is given up to carnal things and he 
continually permits his carnal mind to destroy his spir- 
itual nature and does not enter into the consciousness of 
a spiritual state. On the other hand, the carnal mind 
cannot destroy spiritual light where a state of spiritual 
consciousness excludes the carnal mind and carnal 
things. That is what the Bible means when it says: 
"Unless you become as a little child you cannot enter 
the kingdom of heaven." It does not mean that the 
material nature of the child is spiritual, but that the 
child's sexual organs have not matured and entered into 
his carnal nature and that his carnal mind and nature 
have not sufficiently matured to be all powerful and 
masterful over the spiritual nature and to destroy spir- 
itual life and the power of the innate or spiritual 
mind. Christ meant to teach by this illustration that 
to enter into the spiritual consciousness of spiritual 
things and spiritual truths, the state of the carnal con-, 
sciousness must be absent. 

This carnal mind is ever grasping after the material 
things and carnal laws; it does not understand the 
spiritual. The spiritual or innate mind comprehends 
only spiritual things. That is what Christ meant when 
He said, "I thank thee, Father ; thou has hidden these 
things from the wise and revealed them unto babes," 
i. e., that He thanked the Father that He had hidden 
spiritual things and spiritual truths from the worldly- 



The Carnal Mind and the Spiritual Mind. 89 

wise — the carnal mind and carnal laws — and revealed 
them only unto the spiritual or innate mind and to be 
comprehended only by the spiritual senses. Christ here 
compares the carnal mind and natural laws to the 
worldly-wise and thanks the Father that spiritual 
things are not revealed unto them; and compares the 
spiritual mind with spiritual senses to little babes and 
thanks the Father that spiritual things are only re- 
vealed unto the spiritual mind with the spiritual senses. 
He thanks the Father that spiritual things are not re- 
vealed to the carnal mind and matter, but only unto the 
spiritual mind and Spirit. 

The fruits of this carnal or natural mind are 
lust, greed, avarice, malice, hatred, jealousy, vicious- 
ness, murder and death. It has directed the sons of 
men as they kept step with the drum beat of mar- 
tial music and marched to slaughter, murder and 
death and drenched the earth with the blood of human 
beings throughout the ages. 

The fruit of the innate or spiritual mind is love 
peace, joy. It has directed a constant protest against 
the acts of the carnal mind of men and called men to a 
state of love and peace. 



CHAPTER X. 

The Carnal Mind — Sickness and Death. 

"The soul that sinneth shall die." "The wages of 
sin is death." He who lets his carnal mind or natural 
mind control him and become the governing force of 
his life is partaking of spiritual and physical death. 
As he takes the nature of the carnal mind into his con- 
sciousness, he partakes of spiritual death. The car- 
nal mind is darkness, the spiritual mind is light, and 
he who opens up his conscience and invites the carnal 
mind to make his conscience its habitation, takes into 
his consciousness darkness, sin and death. As the carnal 
mind enters the state of consciousness, it drives 
from that consciousness the light and life of the Spirit ; 
the carnal mind and the spiritual mind cannot entertain 
the same state of consciousness. The carnal mind cannot 
know the spiritual mind and the spiritual mind cannot 
know the carnal mind. Matter cannot know the Spirit 
and Spirit cannot know matter; they occupy different 
realms and are foreign to each other. While they in- 
fluence each other by the law of co-ordination in con- 
trolling man in his dual state, yet they are foreign to 
each other. They are strangers and cannot get ac- 
quainted with each other. 

And he that takes this carnal mind into his state 
of consciousness partakes of the spirit of death; and 

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The Carnal Mind — Sickness and Death. 91 

that is what the Bible means when it says : "The soul 
that sinneth shall die," i. e., the soul or Spirit, which 
takes into its state of consciousness the carnal mind, 
that is, lust, jealousy, hatred, malice and murder de- 
stroys the law of the Spirit and spiritual senses and 
partakes of spiritual death. That soul has sinned 
against the Spirit, the law of the Spirit, the spiritual 
senses and the state of spiritual consciousness and has 
partaken of spiritual death ; that is, has driven out spir- 
itual light and spiritual life from the state of conscious- 
ness to the extent that it has taken into the state of 
consciousness the carnal mind with its fruits ; i. e., the 
desire for lust, greed, hatred, malice and murder. As 
the state of the carnal mind comes into the state of con- 
sciousness, the state of the spiritual mind goes out of 
the state of consciousness and that is what Holy 
Writ means when it says : "The soul that sinneth shall 
die." The flesh is death — the Spirit is life. 

"The wages of sin is death." This not only means 
that he that partakes of the carnal mind dies spiritual- 
ly, but also physically and materially. Material life is 
maintained in the physical man by vitality being col- 
lected in and generated by the brain and sent down the 
spinal cord and over the nervous system maintaining 
metabolism in the human body and physical life. All 
sickness and disease in the physical man is primarily 
due to a disarranged or weak nerve system. As this 
vital current, which is generated in the brain and sent 
like electricity flashing over the nervous system, is 

strengthened or weakened, you have physical strength 
or physical weakness in the physical man. It is this 
vital current that causes assimilation and elimination 
to go on continually in the physical man. When the 
physical man takes food into his stomach, this vital 



92 The Truth About the Bible. 

current, generated in the brain and sent out over the 
nervous system, controls the law of assimilation and 
the physical man takes up such of the substance of the 
food as his body needs and assimilates it and throws 
off or eliminates so much thereof as the body does not 
need and thus continually is rebuilding the physical man. 
As this constructive and building force is continually 
going on, constructing and building material life, like- 
wise there is a destructive force continually in operation 
destroying physical life. As new substances are as- 
similated to rebuild the physical man, worn out tissue 
is being thrown off and being eliminated. The vital 
current which is generated in the brain and sent over 
the nervous system producing metabolism in the ma- 
terial man controls these laws of assimilation and elim- 
ination. If the brain is diseased so it will not generate 
a sufficient vital current, or if the nervous system is 
deranged or weakened so it will not carry a sufficient 
vital current into the material man, then the laws of 
assimialtion and elimination are defective; the physi- 
cal man fails to assimilate his food and it becomes a 
foreign substance to his body and poisonous and he 
fails to eliminate the worn out tissue and it is thrown 
off in the body and becomes poisonous. Thus assimi- 
lation and elemination unimpaired must continually 
go on in the body to preserve physical health in the 
material man. 

When the nervous system is normal and the laws of 

assimilation and elimination are normal and the physi- 
cal man lives out the normal life, the nervous system 
gradually weakens, and assimilation and elimination 
gradually become more imperfect and the un- 
assimilated matter taken into his system and the 
dead tissue which is not eliminated and thrown 



The Carnal Mind — Sickness and Death. 93 

off gradually poisons the physical man and decay 
sets in ; vitality grows lower and weaker and 
finally dissolution between the physical and spiritual 
man takes place. This is the normal death of the physi- 
cal man and he must die, as he is at enmity with the 
spiritual man. This is the Adam man and all partook 
of death in the Adam man. That is, every material 
man being born of woman is conceived in sin. 

But the death of this physical man can be other 
than normal death. "The wages of sin is death" — and 
the carnal and natural mind is sinful and when fol- 
lowed leads to not only the spiritual, but to the physical 
death. The carnal and natural mind craves debauch- 
ery, drunkenness and lust, which mean both physical 
and spiritual death. The physical man who indulges in 
drunkenness and alcoholic stimulants and debauchery 
burns up the brain and the nervous system. He destroys 
the power of the brain to generate the vital current 
and send it over the nervous system to produce vitality 
and life in the physical man. He destroys the nervous 
system so it will not act as a conductor in carrying the 
vital force and current into the human body and the 
laws of assimilation and elimination are weakened and 
impaired and physical death is hastened. He destroys 
the generative force of the brain and the vital force of 
the nervous system and the organs of the human body, 
the heart, the liver, the kidneys and the stomach become 
weakened and diseased and physical pain and suffer- 
ing and death follow. 

The carnal and natural mind with its burning 
desire for lust controls the physical man and is not 
only destructive spiritually, but physically. When the 
physical man yields to the lust of the carnal mind he is 
giving up his physical life as well as his spiritual life. 
When the sexual relations take place the brain and the 



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nervous system are weakened by means of the nervous 
shock ; every time the sexual relations are indulged in, 
the brain becomes less capacitated to generate the vital 
current and send it out over the nervous system and to 
produce normal metabolism in the material body and 
the nervous system becomes less efficient in carrying 
the vital current from the brain into the body and pro- 
ducing material life. Thus the law of material life is 
violated and thus the material man must pay the penal- 
ty. When the lust of the carnal mind is indulged to grat- 
ification, mental and physical weakness, sickness and 
death must follow. The human family, in yielding to 
the law of lust, produces physical weakness, mental 
depravity, insanity, physical death and spiritual dark- 
ness and spiritual death. The asylums of civilized 
countries are filled with inmates as a result of the law 
of lust. Physical weakness, sickness, pain and suffer- 
ing invades the human family everywhere as the re- 
sult of yielding to the carnal mind and gratifying sex- 
ual lust. Mental weaklings, imbeciles and lunatics are 
the mental fruits of the law and lust of the carnal mind. 

This mental and physical weakness is handed down 
from generation to generation and inherited by son 
from father, grandfather and great-grandfather until 
the human family has become a race wracked with 
physical pain and suffering and physical and mental 
weakness as a curse for yielding to the carnal mind and 
the law of lust. 

Moses and the law givers of Israel dealt with this 
question. They taught the Children of Israel that 
yielding to the lustful passions of the carnal mind not 
only consumed the spiritual man, but destroyed the 
physical man. They taught the Childern of Israel the 
best hygienic laws this world has ever known — hygienic 
laws to preserve the physical man and to develop the 



The Carnal Mind — Sickness and Death. 95 

spiritual man. Moses and the teachers of Israel taught 
the Children that to yield to the lust of the carnal mind 
was not only sinful to the spiritual man, but was de- 
structive to the physical man. But orthodox theology 
through false modesty has eliminated the teachings of 
Moses and the Prophets and has turned the human fam- 
ily out into the wilderness of darkness to be consumed 
and to be destroyed both physically and mentally by 
the wild beast, Depravity of the Carnal Mind and the 
Lust of the Flesh. 

Materia Medica can temporarily stimulate the 
physical man, but cannot cure him. You may give him 
one poisonous material medicine to counteract another 
poison in his system, but his constitution must pay the 
penalty of over-taxation in order to eliminate the poi- 
son from the system. Material medicine is not assimi- 
lated as a part of the system, but simply acts as a for- 
eign substance — a poison and a temporary stimulant 
to be eliminated from the body by extra taxation on 
the constitution. 

All diseases of the physical man are primarily 
due to a weak nervous system which causes poor as- 
similation and elimination and which in course of time 
produces disease in the human body by way of self 
poison, weak functions of the organs and diseased 
organs of the body. 

Moses and the teachers of Israel covered all these 
laws of health of the physical man and the laws of 
organic and inorganic matter — the mineral, animal 
and vegetable kingdoms — in their teachings to the 
Children of Israel as revealed truths. But the modern 
orthodox theologian with his material mind and physi- 
cal senses has attempted to improve upon the revealed 
law of God as revealed to the teachers 01 Israel and 



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given as divine instructions by them to the Children 
of Israel. 

The modern orthodox theologian has substituted 
for these divine truths the materia medica — the modern 
medical doctor — and the modern human slaughter 
house of our carnal civilization called "hospitals." In 
substituting man's teachings for God's teachings, the 
carnal mind for the spiritual mind, they have erected 
these slaughter houses in which to butcher and slaugh- 
ter the human family in the name of Christianity. 

If the human family were taught the truths re- 
vealed to Moses and the teachers of Israel, the human 
race would have both physical health and spiritual life. 
The orthodox Jew, when he lived up to the teachings 
of Moses and the Elders of Israel, had no slaughter 
houses in which to slaughter and butcher the human 
family — he had physical health and spiritual life. He 
lived up to the law of governing the generative organs, 
reproducing the physical man and preserving the 
physical man in the state of physical health, and sub- 
jecting the physical man and the carnal mind to the 
spiritual man and spiritual mind. And he had physical 
health, and physical life and spiritual life. 

Moses and the Elders of Israel taught moderation 
in all things to their people — temperance to apply to 
all of nature's laws. Not only may the nervous sys- 
tem, the brain and the generative organs be injured 
and destroyed by drunkenness and lust and over indul- 
gence of the flesh, but by mental worry and too much 
mental work and mental strain and study the 
brain, the nervous system and the generative organs 
may be injured and ruined. When the natural mind by 
means of worry and study taxes the nervous system, it 
shuts off the inflowing current of the innate mind 



The Carnal Mind — Sickness and Death. 97 

which produces life and vitality in the physical man 
and thus the phosphorous of the brain and nervous 
system is consumed and burned out faster than it is 
rebuilt by the innate mind and the vital current, thus 
causing physical, mental and nervous weakness ; hatred 
and malice and jealousy of the carnal Mind and the 
fleshly nature, will impede the flowing of this vital 
current over the nervous system and impair, injure 
and destroy the brain and the nervous system and thus 
destroy the physical man. When the carnal mind sends 
its thoughts of hatred and malice over the nervous 
system from the brain, it shuts out the vital forces, 
destroys the nervous system and poisons the physical 
man. Thus the thoughts of the carnal man kill, and the 
thoughts of the spiritual man give life. As the innate 
mind with its vital flowing current is generated in the 
brain and sent out over the nervous system, vitality 
and material life is imparted into the physical man. As 
this current is shut off by the hatred and malice of the 
carnal mind, the nervous system is deranged, the physi- 
cal man poisoned and material life and vitality lowered. 
Moses and the Elders of Israel understood the spiritual 
and carnal laws and taught them to the Children of 
Israel. 

The carnal mind is Death and the spiritual mind 
is Life. As you take the carnal mind into your con- 
sciousness, you partake of physical and spiritual death 
— you behold matter and darkness. As you take the 
innate or spiritual mind into your consciousness you 
partake of physical and spiritual life. The carnal mind 
is darkness. The spiritual mind is light. That is what 
Paul meant when he said "We now see through a glass 
darkly, but then we shall see as we are seen and know 
as we are known"; i. e., that in our dual state here in 
our best state of spiritual consciousness, the carnal 



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mind enters to some deree and dims and darkens our 
spiritual vision ; but when the Spirit is separated from 
the flesh we shall enter into a state of spiritual con- 
sciousness where the carnal mind is shut out and shall 
see spiritual things with spiritual eyes. 

Moses and the Elders of Israel taught the Children 
of Israel that the generative organs represented a 
source of physical life and the means of propagating 
the race and the abuse of their functions meant physi- 
cal death and spiritual death. They taught that to in- 
dulge the carnal mind and yield to the lustful passions 
of the flesh was not only injurious and destructful to 
the physical man, but was to take into the state of con- 
sciousness the carnal mind and the lust of the flesh 
and thus to destroy the peace and the light of the state 
of spiritual consciousness. The hygienic and physi- 
ological laws taught by Moses and the Elders of Israel 
apply not only to the physical man, but to the spiritual 
man. Their teachings were a Revelation from God to 
man — a revelation to the physical and spiritual man. 
Circumcision had a two-fold meaning — a hygienic and 
physiological meaning for the physical man and a spir- 
itual meaning for the spiritual man. 

These leaders of Israel taught the laws of physical 
conception and reproduction. They taught the Chil- 
dren of Israel the injurious effect — physically and 
spiritually — of the artificial abuse of the generative 
organs. 

The orthodox Jew, who lived the life as taught by 
the teachers of Israel, was the most healthy and best 
preserved race of all the races and had a longevity that 
no other race has ever had. 

But orthodox theology has eliminated the teach- 
ings of Moses and the Elders of Israel from theological 
creeds and left the human race to grow into a state of 



The Carnal Mind — Sickness and Death, 99 

ignorance as to the state of physical and spiritual 
truth. The young growing into manhood and woman- 
hood are not taught the physiological laws which gov- 
ern their being and the laws which govern the gen- 
erative organs of reproduction. These laws are vio- 
lated through ignorance. The young mother is unpre- 
pared for motherhood and soon finds herself a physical 
wreck with an invalid offspring and does not know the 
reason that caused her deplorable condition. She does 
not understand that her brain and entire nervous sys- 
tem and generative organs are all connected by nerve 
currents and that what effects her nervous system 
effects her generative organs and brain. She does not 
understand that her moods and temperament, her love 
and her hate, her mental gloom and her mental dark- 
ness and her spiritual vision are effected by the condi- 
tion of her generative organs and that her entire nerv- 
ous system and brain and physical constitution are 
under the influence of the organs of reproduction. By 
violating nature's laws, the generative organs are in- 
jured, the nervous system is deranged, the brain is 
inactive and a general physical and mental collapse is 
the result with an invalid offspring as the product. 

The young father does not understand that he and 
his offspring must pay the penalty of disobedience to 
nature's laws ; that by abusing nature and by yielding 
to the carnal mind and the lust of the flesh, that he 
wrecks his nervous system and impairs his brain; de- 
stroys his physical constitution and walks into the wil- 
derness of spiritual darkness where the light of spirit- 
ual truth is shut out. 

Moses and the teachers of Israel taught the physi- 
ological and hygienic truths to the Children of Israel 
that they might have both physical health and spiritual 
life. But modern orthodox theology has substituted 



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for the revelations as taught by Moses and the Elders 
of Israel, Materia Medica, and the medical doctor. 
Orthodox theology has eliminated the teachings of 
Moses and the Elders of Israel and kept the people in 
ignorance as to the generative organs, the laws of re- 
production and their effect upon the physical and 
spiritual man with the result that we have a race of 
dwarfs, physical invalids, mental imbeciles, poisoned 
and drugged to death by Materia Medica. The elements 
of Materia Medica are composed of the mineral king- 
dom and science has long proven that the animal king- 
dom cannot assimilate the mineral kingdom; that the 
animal kingdom can only assimilate the vegetable and 
animal kingdoms in producing physical life. The ma- 
terial man is organic physical life and he can only 
assimilate organic physical life in producing and per- 
petuating this organic physical life. 

He must be fed upon organic matter. His food 
must come from the vegetable and animal kingdoms 
— the organic material kingdoms. He cannot assimi- 
late the inorganic — the mineral kingdom. When he 
takes this mineral kingdom in the form of Material 
Medicine into his system, it is foreign substance to 
organic physical life and his system will not assimilate 
it. It is poisonous to his constitution and the physical 
laws of his system have to make a special effort to 
eliminate it from his physical body. 

When the chemical elements which compose the 
brain, the spinal cord, the sexual organs and the nerv- 
ous system and their atomic and chemical friction and 
material properties — which constitute the carnal mind 
and the carnal man — lose their power to longer per- 
form their functions, death takes place. 

When they are in full and complete vigor they 
are at war with the spiritual man and are destructive 



The Carnal Mind — Sickness and Death. 101 

to his spiritual nature and his spiritual life and spirit- 
ual vitality. To be delivered from this bondage to the 
material man, the carnal law and material creation, 
and give the spiritual man absolute freedom and com- 
plete restoration to spiritual life, is what Paul meant 
when he said : "All creation travaileth and mourneth 
together and waiteth for the day of deliverance." He 
compares the spiritual man striving and waiting to be 
delivered from bondage to the material man, the carnal 
law and material creation, to the woman suffering with 
pains and agony and waiting to be delivered of the 
child in material birth. 

When this deliverance takes place, when the 
spiritual man and the material man no longer co-ordi- 
nate ; i. e., when the vital currents of the life force of 
the spiritual world and of the spiritual universe, which 
the orthodox world calls "God," the Universal Personal 
Spiritual Intelligence, ceases generating life force in 
the brain and sending the life currents collected in the 
brain over the nerve system producing atomic motion 
and vitality in the material man, dissolution takes place 
and what the orthodox world calls "Death" occurs. 

But it is not death, it is the dissolution of the 
spiritual and the material man. The individualized, 
spiritual personality which God created in His own 
image lives on, separated from the material world not 
subject to the material man, the carnal law and the 
material creation. 

There is no death — "0 death, where is thy sting? 
grave, where is thy victory?" 



CHAPTER XL 

The Spiritual or Innate Mind. 

"Therefore, there is now no condemnation to them 
which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, 
but after the Spirit. For law of the Spirit of life in 
Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin 
and death. For what the law could not do, in that it 
was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son 
in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned 
sin in the flesh; that the righteousness of the law 
might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, 
but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh 
do mind the things of the flesh ; but they that are after 
the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnal 
minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life 
and peace." Romans 8, chapter 1 to 6 v. 

Moses and the Prophets and the Apostles, in their 
teachings, all recognize the dual nature of man; they 
all recognize the carnal and the spiritual man — that is, 
the burden of the story of the Bible from Genesis to 
Revelations. This truth is the key to the Bible and the 
essence of God's revelation to man. The fleshly man 
is born of woman and the spiritual man made by God 
in His own image. 

This fleshly man — this carnal mind — is at enmity 
against God — cannot know and understand spiritual 

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things and has no knowledge of the spiritual senses 
and spiritual laws which govern the spiritual man. 
The fleshly man is death. 

The spiritual man made in God's image has spirit- 
ual understanding, is subject to spiritual senses and 
spiritual laws, and can know, realize and feel the ever 
presence of the spiritual Creator. The spiritual man is 
life. 

The apostle Paul here recognizes this revealed 
truth. 

The spiritual mind is the opposite of the natural 
or carnal mind. It is Life and the carnal mind is 
Death. The spiritual mind is both the spiritual and 
physical life. The carnal mind is both spiritual and 
physical death. 

As you take into your state of spiritual conscious- 
ness lust, hatred, malice and murder — the fruits of the 
carnal mind — you are destroying your spiritual life by 
taking into your spiritual consciousness spiritual 
death; and at the same time destroying physical life 
by sending these impulses over the nervous system 
poisoning and burning up the physical man. 

As you shut out the thoughts of the carnal mind 
and take into your state of spiritual consciousness, the 
spiritual mind, you are sending thoughts of happiness, 
joy and peace over the nervous system, producing quiet- 
ness and restfulness in the physical man that nature 
may work in an orderly manner and that assimilation 
and elimination may operate perfectly in the body and 
thus produce spiritual life and physical health. 

"Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" has a 
two-fold meaning ; it means spiritual life and physical 
life. It means to take into life spiritual consciousness, 
the spiritual mind and spiritual life and in so doing 
the mental impulses which are sent out by the brain 



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over the nervous system of the body are undisturbed 
by hatred and malice, envy and jealousy; and thus 
causes the organs of the body to function regularly, 
producing physical health and strength. 

The carnal and the spiritual mind are not only 
ever at war with each other as to spiritual life and 
spiritual things, but they are continually at war with 
each other as to physical life and physical health. 

This innate or spiritual mind is the ever flowing 
current from the spiritual universe into the material 
man. This spiritual mind is an ever vital spiritual 
force imparted by the Universal Personal Intelligence 
to the spiritual man whom He made in His own image. 

This spiritual mind of vital, life-giving current is 
ever flowing and produces life — spiritual and physical 
— in both the physical and spiritual man. 

This spiritual mind is not dependent upon matter, 
the properties of matter or the friction of matter for 
existence. It is above matter, contrary to matter and 
does not know material laws and is not subject to ma- 
terial laws. 

This innate or spiritual mind is ever living and 
present. The carnal mind ceases to have a state of 
consciousness when the physical man is absolutely 
asleep. The nervous system which connects the co- 
ordination between matter and Spirit is relaxed and 
while in a state of sound sleep the carnal mind loses 
its control and state of consciousness over man. 

But the innate or spiritual mind is ever present — 
performing its life-giving function — and man is ever 
in a state of spiritual consciousness. This innate or 
spiritual mind controls the involuntary nervous system 
and organs of the body. When asleep and the carnal 
mind is suspended from action and a state of carnal 
consciousness, the innate mind keeps the involuntary 



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nerve system in a state of action; the heart and pulse 
beating, the blood circulating and producing material 
life in the physical man. 

The carnal and physical mind has no part in these 
life currents of the innate or spiritual mind and when 
sound asleep only the innate or spiritual mind is in 
action. And hence, the Bible records that God appeared 
to man — "In dreams." Abraham, while asleep, said: 
"Behold God is in this place and I knew it not." All 
through the Bible we have God speaking to man while 
he is asleep. When asleep this carnal mind is sus- 
pended from action and in conflict with the spiritual 
mind and while in this state of spiritual consciousness 
undisturbed by the carnal consciousness, God talked 
with, communed with and revealed himself to the Law 
Givers and the Prophets — communed with and revealed 
himself to the spiritual man whom He had created in 
His own image. 

This spiritual innate mind sending its life giving 
currents over the nervous system and producing vi- 
tality and physical life in the physical man is the "All 
Good" of Christian Science — "The Divine Spark" of 
New Thought — "God's Healing Power" of Orthodox 
Theology. 

When the physical man does not sleep soundly 
and the carnal mind is intervening in the conscious- 
ness of the innate or spiritual mind, he may have 
dreams which are produced through the nervous sys- 
tem acting on the carnal mind. These dreams come 
from the carnal mind of the material man and the 
external world. But when the physical man is abso- 
lutely sound asleep the nervous system completely sus- 
pended and relaxed and the carnal mind is not inter- 
vening in the consciousness of the innate or spiritual 
mind, the dreams and consciousness which is given 



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forth, comes from the spiritual and innate mind — 
the internal consciousness and spiritual world. The 
state of consciousness and dreams produced while man 
is in this state is the inflowing consciousness from 
the spiritual world producing life in the material man. 
These are the dreams spoken of in the Bible. This 
was the condition — physically, mentally and spiritu- 
ally — that the Law givers and Prophets were in when 
God spoke to them in dreams and revealed himself 
unto them when they were asleep. 

It was when the carnal mind and the physical 
man was not interfering with the spiritual mind and 
the spiritual man that God spoke and communed with 
the spiritual Sages of Old. "The prophet that hath 
a dream let him tell a dream and he that hath my word 
let him speak my word faithfully" (Jeremiah 23:28). 
"In a dream — in a vision of the night when deep sleep 
falleth on men in the slumberings of the bed then He 
openeth the ears of men and sealeth their instruc- 
tions that He may withdraw man from his purpose 
and hide pride from man" (Job 33:15-16). 

It is this spiritual and innate mind which gives 
spiritual consciousness to the spiritual man and com- 
munes with God when the carnal mind and the fleshly 
man is suspended and closed out of the consciousness 
of the spiritual man. There is spiritual virtue in 
dreams and spiritual truths revealed in spiritual 
dreams by the innate mind and spiritual man. 

There are likewise fleshly dreams when the car- 
nal mind through sensuality and lust shuts out the 
light of spiritual consciousness and the physical man 
and the carnal mind dominates. "Even as Sodom and 
Gomorrah and the cities about them in like manner 
giving themselves over to fornication and going after 
strange flesh are set forth for an example, suffering 



The Spiritual or Innate Mind. 107 

the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise, also these 
filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion and 
speak of dignitaries" ( Jude 7-8 verses) . 

These fleshly dreams are from the carnal mind 
and the flesh and shut out the light of spiritual con- 
sciousness and are death both to the physical and 
spiritual man. 

The spiritual dreams are from the innate and 
spiritual mind and come into the state of conscious- 
ness when the carnal mind with its fleshly and lustful 
desires are shut out from the state of spiritual con- 
sciousness. They come into the state of conscious- 
ness when the innate and spiritual mind is in full 
play and has complete control over man and are life- 
giving both spiritually and physically. 

The innate or spiritual mind is healthy and life- 
giving both to the physical and the spiritual man. This 
innate mind is a part of the spiritual universe — and 
Spirit is life. When the spiritual and innate mind is 
held in a state of consciousness and the carnal mind 
excluded from the state of consciousness, the innate 
mind which is Spirit flows with its life-giving forces, 
through the generative power of the brain, over the 
nervous system of man causing the laws of assimila- 
tion and elimination to work harmoniously in the 
body. If the nerve system is sound and the organs 
of the body are left intact and not diseased, this men- 
tal state of spiritual consciousness will not only re- 
store, but preserve, physical health. It will cause the 
food taken into the stomach to be digested and assimi- 
lated and the physical body to be reconstructed and 
rebuilt. This is normal healing by the power of the 
Spirit and spiritual consciousness. 

If the nervous system is destroyed and too weak 
for the vital forces of the innate and spiritual con- 



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sciousness to produce the proper amount of nerve ener- 
gy and normal assimilation and elemination, then special 
intervening power of Spiritual Intelligence is required 
to produce health. Or, if the organs of the body are 
diseased and destroyed so that they will not func- 
tionate, special intervention of the Spiritual Intelli- 
gence is necessary to reproduce health. This is what 
the orthodox world call a "miracle" or "the super- 
natural." But, in fact, it is deeper spiritual life and 
a better spiritual understanding and the overcoming 
of matter by the Spirit and the physical laws by the 
spiritual laws. Few reach this state of spiritual un- 
derstanding and spiritual consciousness so as to be 
able to avail themselves of the supernatural. 

Many spiritual minded reach that state of spirit- 
ual consciousness so as avail themselves of the normal 
spiritual healing and spiritual life, but few reach 
that state of spiritual consciousness so as to be able 
to invoke the supernatural. 

This law of spiritual healing and spiritual life 
is demonstrated by the law of dreams. He who thinks 
of carnal things and permits his lustful nature to 
absorb his thoughts during the day will have his con- 
sciousness invaded at night while asleep and have 
carnal dreams. The thoughts of the carnal man are 
entering into his consciousness while asleep. The car- 
nal mind will enter his state of consciousness when 
the Spiritual mind should be in absolute control. He 
who thinks of spiritual things and excludes the carnal 
mind from his consciousness during the day will 
dream of spiritual things when asleep. The spiritual 
mind when in this state excludes from its conscious- 
ness the carnal mind and the spiritual mind is in abso- 
lute control of the state of consciousness. 

This was the state of consciousness that the Sages 



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of Israel were in when God spoke to them in dreams. 
The orthodox world calls it "sub-consciousness" — or, 
"that which we know while asleep." But it is more 
than subconsciousness, it is real consciousness — it is the 
consciousness of the spiritual man or the innate mind 
when the carnal mind and the state of consciousness 
of the physical man is excluded. It is the state of 
consciousness which gives light — spiritual light — to 
the spiritual man and physical life to the physical 
man. That is what the Psalmist means when he says : 
"Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all 
thy diseases." It is this spiritual state of conscious- 
ness which conforms to natural laws and spiritual 
laws and gives spiritual and physical life. We do not 
deny natural law and matter, but claim that this state 
of spiritual consciousness controls and regulates them 
as well as controls and regulates spiritual law and 
life. 

It is necessary for the physical man to eat the 
proper kind of food — but it is also necessary for him 
to digest and assimilate this food to have health. The 
laws of assimilation and elimination go on continually 
in his body to preserve physical health. The organs 
of his body must perform their proper functions to 
preserve physical life. Disarrange these laws and 
prevent their natural operation and you have physical 
disease and physical death. Matter of itself has no 
life and no intelligence. The intelligence and the 
force which operates these physical laws and organs 
and preserves physical life in the physical man is 
spiritual. It is the power of the Universal Spiritual 
Intelligence generating nerve force in the brain and 
sending this nerve force or vital current out over the 
nervous system, that causes the organs of the body of 
the physical man to operate and produces digestion, 



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assimilation and elimination and preserve physical 
life and health. 

If you obstruct these physical laws by worry, 
hatred, malice and jealousy and take these conditions 
into your state of consciousness, thereby shutting off 
the current of vital force, you will produce sickness 
and disease in the physical man. But if you exclude 
from your state of consciousness these fruits of the 
carnal mind and let the vital current of life and Spirit 
flow into the physical man over the nervous system, 
you produce physical health and life. This is the 
healing power of the state of spiritual consciousness. 
The Elders of Israel understand this spiritual law; 
the Disciples of the Early Church realized and under- 
stood it. It is not the supernatural, but the natural 
life-giving power of the Spirit. It is the life-giving 
force of Spirit over matter. 

The Author for many years could not under- 
stand or realize anything but matter and material 
laws. He inherited a weak and frail nervous system 
and a weak and delicate stomach. He was left an 
orphan in the world at nine years of age and had no 
one to care for his physical condition; he lived where 
he could and ate as he could, all kinds of food, at res- 
taurants, boarding houses and hotels, that his deli- 
cate stomach would not digest and his weak nervous 
system would not assimilate. As he grew up into 
manhood, he was of a studious nature and read and 
studied much, thereby overtaxing his frail constitu- 
tion. At twenty-one his normal weight was one hun- 
dred and forty pounds; but not understanding these 
spiritual laws and being unable to digest and assimi- 
late his food according to physical laws, that which 
he put into his stomach would ferment and decay 
and he soon developed stomach, bowel and liver trou- 



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ble which the doctors mis-diagnosed and began to 
operate on him for effects instead of removing the 
cause. Instead of assimilating his food he absorbed 
it into his system as so much poison until he weighed 
nearly two hundred pounds and his nervous system 
and constitution was so disarranged and poisoned that 
he could not sleep. In the meantime the doctors oper- 
ated on him five times — almost completely destroy- 
ing his delicate stomach and weak nervous system. 
After these operations were over, by means of stim- 
ulating the liver temporarily by drugs made from 
herbs, forty pounds of this poisonous substance was 
taken from his system within twenty days, leaving 
him a shadow and a complete nervous wreck. He did 
not have vitality enough to cause capillary circula- 
tion. He had not had a good night's sleep in five 
years. His stomach and nervous system were so weak 
that when he would go to walk the glare of the light 
would affect his stomach and nervous system so that 
he would fall over face foremost. He could not digest 
and assimilate the most delicate food. His stomach 
and body had been poisoned by taking all kinds of 
medicine for years. 

In this state he began to think spiritual thoughts 
instead of material thoughts. He began to take into 
his state of consciousness the state of spiritual truth 
and exclude the material and carnal. His nervous 
system was so weak that according to natural law it 
could not relax so as he could get natural sleep. In- 
stead of natural sleep he would exclude from his 
mind all material thoughts and images and make his 
mind a perfect blank — thereby letting the life current 
of spiritual force generate nerve energy in the brain 
and send it out over his weak nerve system, producing 
as much power of assimilation and elimination as 



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possible. By availing himself of the state of spiritual 
consciousness and thinking spiritual thoughts and 
excluding the carnal and material from his state of 
consciousness he gradually rebuilt by degrees until 
he reached that state where his nervous system would 
relax slightly for a few minutes at a time — so he 
could get a few minutes of half sleep and half uncon- 
sciousness. By continuing in this state of blank 
mental attitude and resting and taking into his state 
of consciousness only spiritual thoughts and permit- 
ting the spiritual forces and vital current to be gen- 
erated freely in the brain and to be sent out freely 
over his weak nerve system — he gradually rebuilt 
until he could digest some food and the laws of as- 
similation and elimination would operate to some ex- 
tent until he began to take on vitality and to rebuild 
physically. 

The Author never drank any whiskey or alcoholic 
stimulants except in case of sickness. He never took 
any drugs in the way of opiates in his life. But from 
lack of assimilation of his food his nervous system 
atrophied and starved while in this impoverished state 
of health until the demand of his nerves for nutri- 
ment for the nerve cells caused an excruciating agony, 
as though ten billion pins were being stuck into him 
at one time. 

The doctors gave him up to die and no one 
thought he could live. But by applying the law of 
Spirit to the law of matter and living in a state of 
spiritual consciousness and giving the vital forces of 
spiritual laws free and complete play to generate 
nerve force in the brain and to send the vital cur- 
rents out over his weak and impoverished nervous 
system, he controlled the natural laws by the spiritual 



The Spiritual or Innate Mind. 113 

laws so as to gain physical strength, to still live and 
to write this book. 

The doctors tell us that worry causes indigestion, 
poor health and will kill the physical man, but they 
do not tell us why. Like all other contentions of 
Materia Medica, they give us the effects without giv- 
ing the cause. Medical science, if it can be called a 
science, describes disease and its effects, but con- 
cludes with cause unknown. 

Those who understand the spiritual laws as well 
as the natural laws know that all disease is due pri- 
marily to a weak nerve system and want of nerve 
force. By ' 'nerve force" we mean the vital current, 
of the spiritual universe energizing the physi- 
cal man and sending life currents over the 
nerve system; the brain — into which the nerve 
system centers by way of the spinal cord — relaxes; 
the carnal mind is unconscious, but the spiritual or 
sub-conscious mind is active and at work, and thus life 
is generated in the brain and sent out over the nerve 
system and the physical man is rebuilt. Without 
sleep so that this state of relaxation could take place, 
the nerve system would soon contract instead of relax- 
ing, and the physical man would begin to break down 
instead of rebuilding. The Author was so sick for 
years and his nerve system was so weak that he 
could not relax to get natural sleep and lived by clos- 
ing his mind to the external world and making his 
mind a perfect blank so that the nerve current could 
pass into his body and maintain physical life. He 
lived by this method of controlling matter with mind 
until he regained sufficiently to enter a natural state 
of relaxation and get some natural sleep and let the 
nerve current pass in the natural way from the brain 
over the nervous system. 



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All life is free from the material force. The 
Fathers of the "Early Church" understood this truth 
and healed the sick. This spiritual and life-giving 
force controls natural laws and matter. There is not 
anything super-natural about it — the natural state of 
Spirit and matter is for Spirit to control matter. 

The strong physical man by indulging in lust, 
drunkenness, hatred and malice and shutting out from 
his consciousness the power of the Spirit and yielding 
to the carnal mind, may soon become a physical 
wreck. He sends forces over his nervous system 
which are poisonous and destructive to the physical 
man. But the same man with a strong physical con- 
stitution by shutting out the carnal mind from his 
state of consciousness, denying the law of lust, hatred 
and malice and taking into his state of consciousness 
the power of the brain over his strong nervous system, 
will preserve his health and live to be a strong, 
healthy old man. 

This is the normal health-preserving and life- 
giving force of Spirit over matter and it is available 
to every individual of strong spiritual power and of 
a deep state of spiritual consciousness. 

But there is a supernatural healing power of the 
Spirit. Christ taught this supernatural, spiritual 
power and so did the Apostles and many of the Early 
Church Fathers. "And it came to pass on a certain 
day as He was teaching, that there were Pharisees 
and Doctors of the law sitting by, which were come 
out of every town of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem 
and the power of the Lord was present to heal them." 
Luke 5th chapter and 17th verse. "And when he had 
called unto him his Twelve Disciples, he gave them 
power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and 
to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of dis- 



The Spiritual or Innate Mind. 115 

eases." Matt. 10th chapter, 1st verse. "There came 
also a multitude out of the cities round about unto 
Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were 
vexed with unclean spirits; and they were healed 
every one." Acts 5th chapter, 16th verse. 

The unclean spirits and evil spirits here men- 
tioned, of course, was the power of the flesh. The 
flesh is unclean, anti-spiritual, and is sickness and 
death. The power manifested here to heal, of coures, 
was supernatural — Christ and the Apostles who did 
the healing were in a state of spiritual consciousness, 
which had absolute control over the carnal mind and 
physical man and thereby possessed the power to 
make the carnal mind yield to the spiritual mind. They 
were in a state of consciousness whereby the spiritual 
had absolute power over the natural and material, and 
their healing power was therefore supernatural. Mat- 
ter and the carnal mind did not enter their state of 
consciousness, only Spirit and spiritual laws entered 
their state of consciousness and they could therefore 
subject matter and the carnal mind to the Spirit and 
the spiritual laws. 

Moses, the Elders and the Prophets of Israel, the 
Disciples and Apostles and the Fathers of the "Early 
Church" understood this spiritual truth and practiced 
it. But when the church became more materialistic 
and men began to worship God with the senses of the 
physical man they began to lose their power to heal 
the sick, and when the material forces got control of 
the church and it became a materialistic institution, 
run and controlled by the material man, who wor- 
shipped a materialistic god with the material senses 
of the physical man, men lost their healing power and 
the power of the spiritual over the material — and the 
spiritual man over the material man. 



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The spiritual mind is of God — it is a part of the 
Universal Personal Spiritual Intelligence. It knows 
no death. When it excludes from its state of con- 
sciousness the carnal mind and the power of the flesh, 
it has absolute control over matter and natural laws. 
The spiritual man is then in the absolute image of 
his Maker; he is in absolute harmony with God and 
God's spiritual universe. 

"There is therefore now no condemnation to them 
which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the 
flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit 
of Life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the 
law of sin and death." Eighth chapter Romans, first 
and second verses. 

The power of Spirit over matter and the spiritual 
mind over the carnal mind is not so much a ques- 
tion of faith as it is spiritual understanding. 

The spiritual mind understandeth spiritual things 
and spiritual laws — and when this spiritual mind and 
spiritual man is placed in a state of spiritual con- 
sciousness absolutely in harmony with God and God's 
law and spiritual universe, the spiritual man hath 
absolute power over the carnal mind and natural law 
and the physical man — he hath spiritual life which 
driveth out sin, sickness and death — both spiritually 
and physically. 

The carnal and fleshly mind hates the innate and 
spiritual mind. The fleshly man hates the spiritual 
man. The spiritual man spoke through the Prophets 
and the Elders of Israel and the Disciples and Fathers 
of the Early Church and the fleshly man stoned them 
and killed them. The spiritual power flowed into the 
mind of these spiritual Sages like a mighty current 
flooding the world with spiritual power and light, but 
the fleshly man dammed up the mighty current with 



The Spiritual or Innate Mind. 117 

fleshly power and carnal obstructions. The Spirit 
gave light and life through the Prophets and the 
Teachers of Israel to the world, but the carnal man 
denied the light and preferred darkness to light and 
night to day. The spiritual man loved the light of 
the Spirit and the carnal man loved the darkness of 
the flesh. The spiritual mind gives the spiritual light 
of day to the spiritual man and the carnal mind gives 
the darkness of night to the fleshly man. 

Every philosopher, every prophet and every 
teacher who has had the light of the Spirit and taught 
it to the world has been hated and despised by the 
carnal mind and the fleshly man. The fleshly man 
through his carnal mind has stoned and killed the 
teachers of spiritual truth in every age of the world. 
The flesh will not accept the Spirit. The carnal mind 
will not be taught by the spiritual mind. The fleshly 
man will not receive the doctrines of the spiritual 
man. 

"And this is the condemnation, that light is come 
into the world, and men loved darkness rather than 
light because their deeds were evil." Third chapter 
of John, nineteenth verse. 

The spiritual mind giveth light! light! light! unto 
the world in the midst of the darkness of the night of 
the carnal mind and the fleshly man. 



CHAPTER XII. 

The Creation — Spirit and Matter — or Spirit and 

Flesh. 

"In the beginning, God created the heavens and 
the earth, and the earth was without form and void 
and darkness was upon the face of the deep." "And 
the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." 
"And God said: Let there be light and there was 
light." Genesis, first chapter, first, second and third 
verses. "In the beginning was the Word and the 
Word was with God and the Word was God. The same 
was in the beinning with God. All things were made 
by him and without him was not anything made that 
was made. In him was Light and the Light was the 
life of men. And the Light shineth in darkness and 
the darkness comprehended it not." First chapter 
John, 1 to 5 verses. 

There was a time when matter did not exist — 
when the material creation was a nonentity. A time 
existed when the material universe did not exist. God 
who is Spirit and Universal Personal Intelligence cre- 
ated matter and the material universe. The fatal er- 
ror of the school called "Christian Science" is that its 
believers ignore the existence of matter. And the 
fatal error of that school of spiritual thinkers called 

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The Creation — Spirit and Flesh. 119 

"New Thought" is that they ignore Spirit by claiming 
that matter is God spiritualized. 

Spirit cannot be materialized — neither can mat- 
ter be spiritualized. Spirit and matter cannot be har- 
monized. They are foreign to each other and are gov- 
erned by different laws. Matter has no intelligence 
and life of itself. Matter has material properties, but 
no innate life and innate intelligence. 

The universe exists. There must be a Universal 
Spiritual Intelligence — and that Universal Personal 
Spiritual Intelligence must be eternal; and, must 
have created matter or else matter is eternal. Either 
matter or Spirit is eternal — that is, existed without 
a beginning. The materialist must admit this propo- 
sition. All men must admit it regardless of revela- 
tion. That either Spirit or matter existed without a 
beginning is self evident. 

That this universe is governed by law all must 
admit. That the material universe is governed by 
law and intelligence none can deny. That material 
creation is a cosmos, not chaos — is lav/ and order, and 
not disorder and anarchy — no one can deny. 

That matter has no innate intelligence must be 
admitted. The rock, the stone — cannot think and 
cannot know the laws of the material universe. There- 
fore, there must be an Intelligent Force which governs 
the created universe. There must be an Intelligence 
which regulates and governs the material universe. 

This Intelligent Force which created matter is 
Spirit and is a Universal Personal Spiritual Intelli- 
gence. He created matter and the material creation 
according to His spiritual intelligence and fixed laws 
to govern the material universe. The mineral king- 
dom of this material creation has no organic life. Out 
of the mineral kingdom is developed the vegetable 



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kingdom which is organic life. The trees and the 
flowers are of a higher state of material creation than 
the rocks and the stones. The animal kingdom is still 
a higher creation of material organic life. The birds 
that fly in the air and sing in the trees, the fish as 
they swim in the ocean, and the herds of cattle as 
they low upon the hill tops are a higher state of or- 
ganic material life than the lilies of the valley and the 
flowers of the garden and the trees of the forest. Ma- 
terial man is the highest type of this organic material 
life and is given dominion over all other creation of 
the animal kingdom. 

According to natural law, the vegetable kingdom 
can assimilate from the mineral kingdom to produce 
organic life in the vegetable kingdom. And the ani- 
mal kingdom can assimilate from the vegetable king- 
dom and produce life in the animal kingdom. But 
the animal kingdom cannot assimilate the mineral 
kingdom and convert the mineral kingdom into or- 
ganic life in the animal kingdom. Man cannot as- 
similate the mineral kingdom as food and produce 
material life from the mineral kingdom. He must 
depend for food out of which to sustain the material 
life from the vegetable and animal kingdoms. When 
he takes the mineral kingdom into his body, it is a 
foreign substance and nature must eliminate it as a 
poison — he cannot assimilate it into organic material 
life. As you progress from the mineral kingdom to 
the animal kingdom of material creation, you reach 
a higher state of organic material life. But, as this 
state of organic material life progresses, it reaches 
by progress the consciousness of the Spiritual Intelli- 
gence which created material life. And man, the 
highest type of the material creation, is conscious of 
the Spiritual Universe and his own spiritual nature. 



The Creation — Spirit and Flesh. 121 

It is immaterial whether God was billions of 
years in creating the material universe or created it 
instantaneously. Material man — the highest type of 
material creation, has an innate consciousness of a 
Spiritual Personality and a Spiritual Intelligence. 

As this law of material progress of organic life 
develops by progress from the mineral kingdom, the 
vegetable kingdom and the animal kingdom into the 
physical man, the highest type of the animal king- 
dom, so likewise does the spiritual creation develop 
by the law of progress from the lowest type of the ani- 
mal kingdom to the spiritual man — the highest type of 
the manifestations of the Spirit in the spiritual crea- 
tion — this highest type of the spiritual manifesta- 
tion being the spiritual man who was created in God's 
image. 

The vegetable kingdom assimilates the mineral 
kingdom into organic material life and according to 
this law, from the mineral kingdom grows the flow- 
ers, roses, the lilies, and all of the vegetable king- 
dom. The animal kingdom assimilates the vegetable 
and animal kingdom and from the vegetable and ani- 
mal kingdom man and the other animal creation take 
their food and sustain life in the animal kingdom. 
This is the law of progress from the lower to the 
higher state of material life. Moses taught this law 
as revealed to him. Likewise, there is a law of prog- 
ress from the lower to the higher spiritual existence. 
The scriptures teach this truth. All animal life pos- 
sesses some power of the spiritual universe. There is 
no life except Spirit. What we term material life 
is simply the energizing power of Spirit in matter — . 
and what we call physical material life is simply the 
manifestation of spiritual life over the nervous sys- 



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tern producing physical life. But primarily, all life 
is spiritual. 

The Scriptures teach this as a revealed truth — 
Numbers sixtenth chapter, twenty-second verse. 
God is referred to as "the God of the spirits of all 
flesh." Third chapter of Ecclesiastes, twenty-first 
verse: "Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth 
upward and the spirit of beast that goeth downward 
to the earth?" Second chapter of James, twenty-sixth 
verse: "For as the body without the Spirit is dead, 
so faith without works is dead also." 

Here we are taught by revelation that all life is 
from Spirit, and from the lowest to the highest crea- 
tion possesses this life in some degree — the higher 
the state of physical life the higher the state of spirit- 
ual life. This law of progression prevails in creation 
until it reaches man — the highest type of physical 
creation and the highest conception of spiritual crea- 
tion — and the spiritual man who was made in God's 
image has a spiritual consciousness of a spiritual per- 
sonality. 

The material creation is anti-spiritual and this 
law runs from the lowest to the highest state of ma- 
terial creation. In the animal kingdom, this law of 
anti-spiritual nature prevails in the lower animal 
kingdom as well as in the higher ; that is, the material 
lower animal kingdom is anti-spiritual as well as the 
material man, the highest type of the animal king- 
dom. This anti-spiritual nature of the animal king- 
dom is represented in the generative organs and the 
sexual laws by which the animal kingdom is propa- 
gated. The members of the lower animal kingdom 
possess this anti-spiritual nature in their generative 
organs and possesses the lustful nature as well as 
man, the highest type of the animal kingdom. Who 



The Creation — Spirit and Flesh. 123 

has not observed the viciousness of the male of the 
members of the lower animal kingdom, who has not 
observed the law of lust controlling the opposite sex 
of the lower animal kingdom? Who, as a student of 
nature, has not observed the law of jealousy and 
hatred among members of the lower animal kingdom 
from the lowest to the highest, which is anti-spiritual 
in its nature; the members of the lower animal king- 
dom are not conscious of its conflict with the spiritual 
nature because they have not that high degree of 
spiritual life which gives them a spiritual conscious- 
ness of a spiritual personality. But man, the comple- 
tion and the highest type of creation in his physical 
nature who was given dominion over the lower ani- 
mal kingdom and who in his spiritual nature was 
made in God's image, has this state of spiritual con- 
sciousness, that he is a personal spiritual being — and 
in him the conflict between the flesh and the spirit — 
the spiritual and the material creation — reaches its 
high state of strife and war. 

The Scriptures teach this spiritual and material 
law. Moses and the Prophets understood it — so did 
the Disciples and the Fathers of the Early Church. 

The entire animal kindom is at enmity with the 
spiritual kingdom. The law of lust of the animal 
kingdom of the material creation hates the Spirit, 
the law of Spirit. The lust of the flesh of the animal 
kingdom of the material creation hateth the Spirit 
and spiritual things and is at war with the spiritual 
universe, and hence the material creation must perish 
and pass away and the physical creation of the ani- 
mal kingdom, which is the product of the law of lust, 
must die because it is anti-spiritual. The lowest mem- 
bers of the animal kingdom must die because they 
are produced as a result of the law of lust just as 



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the physical man must return to dust because he is a 
product of the law of lust. 

God is Spirit and God is Life. The animal king- 
dom is the product of the law of lust of the flesh and 
the flesh is death. And this law runs through all of 
the animal kingdom of material creation and of God's 
spiritual universe. 

Romans, seventh chapter, fifth verse: "For 
when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, (the 
word motions here in the original means passions — 
which, of course, means the passions of the flesh), 
which were by the law, did work in our members to 
bring forth fruit unto death/ ' To give this passage 
its full meaning the Apostle intended to convey in 
the original Greek it would have to read: "For when 
we were in the flesh the sexual passions of sin which 
were by the law, did work in our members to bring 
forth fruit unto death." Sixth chapter, 12th verse of 
Genesis: "And God looked upon the earth, and, be- 
hold, it was corrupt; for all flesh corrupted his way 
upon the earth." Fifth chapter Galations, seventeenth 
verse: "For the flesh lusted against the Spirit and 
the Spirit against the flesh." Sixth chapter of Gala- 
tions, eighth verse : "For he that soweth to his flesh 
shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sow- 
eth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life ever- 
lasting." 

The Word which was with God in the beginning 
and which was God — which John refers to in the 
opening of his Gospel and which was the great power 
and which spoke the material universe into existence, 
was Spirit. The material creation is anti-spiritual 
and the animal kingdom of this creation is produced 
and propagated by the law of lust — the essence of 
that which is anti-spiritual. All physical creation is 



The Creation — Spirit and Flesh. 125 

produced and propagated by the law of lust and is 
anti-spiritual and must die. This law governs from 
the lowest to the highest, the members of the animal 
kingdom of the material creation. 

That is what the Scripture means when it says: 
"All creation travaileth and mourneth together and 
waiteth for the day of deliverance." That is, the 
physical creation which is produced and propagated 
by the law of the flesh and the law of lust is at enmity 
with the spiritual universe and the spirits which are 
jmanifested in physical life travaileth and waiteth for 
the day of deliverance from sin of the flesh and the 
law of lust. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

Marriage and the Natural Birth. 

Orthodox and man-made theology has declared 
marriage and the natural birth to be holy. Scholastic 
theology has declared marriage to be a spiritual insti- 
tution and has made it one of the sacraments of the 
church and the natural conception and the natural 
birth to be spiritual and holy. Man-made theology 
has thus declared the physical and material relations 
of the sexes to be holy and spiritual. And upon this 
rock every ship of orthodox theology through the 
ages has been wrecked and sunk in the bottomless 
pit of the ocean of infidelity. Scholastic and man- 
made theology, in contending that marriage is holy 
and the natural birth is spiritual, has contended for 
too much. If marriage be holy and the natural birth 
spiritual, then the physical man would be spiritual 
and in harmony with his Maker and would need no 
redemption or salvation. The makers of orthodox 
theology, in contending that marriage is holy and the 
natural birth spiritual, have argued orthodox theology 
out of court and have given the world of infidelity a 
judgment by confession. For the infidel replies: "If 
marriage be holy and the natural conception and the 
natural birth be spiritual, why does man need re- 
demption or salvation?" And if the contention of the 

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orthodox world be true, the infidels' and agnostics' 
reply is unanswerable. 

But marriage is not holy and the natural birth is 
not spiritual and upon the truth of this statement de- 
pends the Immaculate Conception of Jesus Christ. 

But the orthodox world quotes — does not the 
Bible say: "And the Lord God said: It is not good 
that man should be alone and I will make him a help- 
meet for him." Genesis, second, eighteenth verse: 
"And Adam said: This is now bone of my bone 
and flesh of my flesh — she shall be called woman be- 
cause she was taken out of man. Therefore, shall a 
man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave 
unto his wife and they shall be one flesh." Genesis 
second, 23-24 verses: "And God blessed them and 
God said unto them be fruitful and multiply and re- 
plenish the earth and subdue it and have dominion 
over the fish of the sea and over every living thing 
that liveth upon the earth." Genesis First, 28th verse. 

Orthodox and man-made theology has construed 
these passages of Scripture through the ages as au- 
thority for the contention that marriage is holy and 
the natural birth spiritual; and have relied upon these 
passages of Scripture as authority for making mar- 
riage a sacrament of the church. They have been 
used as authority to gratify the lust of the flesh; and 
the physical man has used them as a subterfuge and 
misconstrued them for the purpose of justifying his 
lust, as divine and spiritual. 

We observe here that the Scripture quotations 
which orthodox theology relies upon as authority for 
its contention that marriage is holy and the natural 
birth spiritual, refer to the physical man and not to 
the spiritual man. 

Before God "blessed them" he created the spirit- 



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ual man; and He said: "It is not good for man 
to be alone"; "But of the tree of the knowledge of 
good and evil thou shalt not eat of it for the day that 
thou eateth thereof thou shalt surely die." In other 
words, before the physical woman was created the 
physical man was put on notice that the moment he 
yielded to sexual lust he should die — physical man 
should return to dust. And the Scripture tells us 
that God knew that he would fall before he created 
him. That is, the physical man would yield to sexual 
lust, and that the spiritual man would thereby take 
into his consciousness the state of the carnal mind. 

"So God created man in His own image, in the 
image of God created He him; male and female cre- 
ated he them." First Genesis, 27th verse. We ob- 
serve here that it was the spiritual man and woman 
which were created in God's image, and not the physi- 
cal and fleshly man. And God blessed them and said 
unto them: "Be fruitful and multiply and replenish 
the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the 
fish of the sea and over the fowls of the air and over 
every living thing that moveth upon the earth." 

We note here that it was the spiritual man whom 
God blessed, and it was the physical man whom He 
told to multiply and to replenish the earth and to 
whom he gave dominion over all other animal crea- 
tion. The spiritual man was made in God's image 
and the physical man was made the highest type of 
animal creation and given dominion over the rest of 
the animal kingdom. Spirit is Life and when mani- 
fested in the material creation is individualized into 
a Personal Spiritual Being. The spiritual man whom 
God created in His own image was part of Universal 
Spiritual Life before he was manifested in matter 
and when this Universal Spiritual Life was mani- 



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fested in the physical man the spiritual man was indi- 
vidualized into a personal spirit — "Multiplying" of 
the physical man referred to here by the Scriptures 
quoted is governed by the physical law of material- 
man and the material creation and the means of indi- 
vidualizing the spiritual man from Universal Spirit- 
ual Life according to spiritual law. The Scriptures 
tell us, however, that the spiritual man by taking into 
his spiritual consciousness the carnal mind and sexual 
lust in multiplying the physical man and in individual- 
izing the spiritual man into a spiritual personality 
from Universal Spiritual Life, fell; that is, the spirit- 
ualman who is governed by spiritual laws, took into 
his state of consciousness the law of the carnal mind 
the nature of lust and the material man and was thus 
placed out of harmony with the laws of the spiritual 
universe and Universal Spiritual Life — out of har- 
mony with God's laws and God's universe. 

There is a dual man — the spiritual and the ma- 
terial. It was the spiritual man that God made in 
His own image whom he blest, and it was the physical 
man whom he told to multiply and to replenish the 
earth. In the plan of Creation the physical man by 
reproduction was used as a means of individualizing 
the spiritual man into a spiritual personality from 
Universal Spiritual Life. But there is no harmony be- 
tween the spiritual man and the material man. This 
spiritual man is a part of the Universal Spiritual Life 
— and Spirit is eternal. "The Spirit of God hath made 
me and the breath of the Almighty hath given me 
life." 33d Job, 4th verse. "God that made the world 
and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of 
heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with 
hands; neither is worshipped with men's hands, as 
though he needed anything, seeing he giveth to all 



ISO The Truth About the Bible. 

life, and breath, and all things." Acts 17-24th and 
25th verses. 

"There is a natural body and there is a spiritual 
body." First Corinthians, 15-44th verse. We observe 
in these quotations that the Life and the Man referred 
to are the spiritual life and the spiritual man and that 
God giveth this Life and created this Man. He is not 
the material man which was born of woman. 

"For he knoweth our frame he remembereth that 
we are dust." 103d psalm, 14th verse. "But, now, 
Lord, thou art our Father ; we are the clay and thou 
art our potter ; and we all are the work of thy hands." 
64th Isaih, 8th verse. In these quototions the Scrip- 
ture is referring to the physical man whom God said 
shall be turninto dust. 

The spiritual man is eternal; he is evolved from 
the Universal Spiritual Life into a spiritual person- 
ality and that is what the Scriptures mean when they 
say : "God made man in His own image." The physi- 
cal man is of material creation and matter shall 
cease to exist. 

The orthodox theologians have relied for ages on 
that passage of Scripture, "Multiply and replenish the 
earth," as authority for indulging the physical man's 
lust. They have made marriage a spiritual institu- 
tion and the physical birth as holy by virtue of their 
creeds and preached to the human family the licen- 
tious doctrines; if they would only marry — if the 
sexes would only mate by the authority of the church 
they were at liberty to indulge their sexual lust at 
will and by so doing they would be serving their God. 
This lustful doctrine and licentious teaching had its 
origin in the lustful nature of the physical man and 
the theologians in forming creeds for the physical 
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his carnal mind naturally made the law of lust, mar- 
riage, and physical birth holy and spiritual. The 
Pagan religions had the same idea, for the priest- 
hood of the Pagan religions formed creeds for the 
people to know God through the physical senses and 
to worship through the carnal mind, for by so doing 
their creeds appealed to the physical man and grati- 
fied his nature and lust. The priesthood and the* 
theologians of the Christian religion as the centuries 
rolled by gradually drifted away from the teachings 
of Moses and the Prophets, Christ, the Apostles and 
the Fathers of the "Early Church" who proclaimed a 
spiritual God to the spiritual man, and adopted the 
Pagan idea of proclaiming a physical God to the 
physical senses of man; thereby appealing to the lust 
and the carnal mind of the physical man and holding 
him within the grasp of their creeds. 

This was the origin of the conception that mar- 
riage and the physical birth was holy — to sustain 
their creed which appealed to the lust and the carnal 
mind of the physical man they misconstrued, misin- 
terpreted/' 24th verse of 2d Genesis; "Therefore, 
shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall 
cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh." 2d 
verse Genesis. "It is not good that man shall be 
alone, I will make a helpmeet for him." Matthew 
19th, 6th verse. "Wherefore, they are no more twain, 
but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined to- 
gether let not man put asunder." Priest-craft and or- 
thodox theology following out the idea of Papanism, the 
religions of spiritualizing the physical man and know- 
ing God and worshipping God through the physical 
senses and the carnal mind, have attempted to spirit- 
ualize these passages of Scripture and to spiritualize 



132 The Truth About the Bible. 

the physical man and to make marriage and natural 
birth spiritual and holy. 

Instead of the passages of Scripture which they 
relied on as authority for declaring marriage and the 
natural birth holy and spiritual, by correct interpre- 
tation, these passages declare and proclaim absolutely 
the opposite to be the truth and pronounce marriage 
and the physical birth anti-spiritual and unholy. 

When God said that it was not good for man to be 
alone and he would make a helpmeet for him he was 
speaking of the physical man. "Therefore shall a man 
leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto 
his wife and they shall be as one flesh," declares the 
binding tie of sexual lust. This passage of Scripture de- 
clares it, as does natural law, to be the most binding tie 
of material creation. The Scripture says this lustful 
nature is so great and consuming over the physical man, 
"that he shall leave his father and his mother and shall 
cleave unto his wife" ; that he shall forsake those who 
gave him natural birth, who nourished and cared for 
him in infancy, in order to gratify his sexual lust. The 
inspired writer here was using the strongest comparison 
known to the natural mind to convey the idea of the all 
consuming power of the law of sexual lust and its in- 
fluence over man and its anti-spiritual nature. Moses 
here speaking through inspiration exhausted the power 
of human language and expression to convey the idea of 
the anti-spiritual nature and unholiness of marriage 
and the physical birth. According to natural law, the 
physical man is presumed to have the greatest love 
and the strongest tie for his father and his mother who 
gave him physical life and nursed him through infancy 
to maturity, yet the Scripture says, so consuming is the 
power of lust over the physical man, that he will leave 
his father and his mother — forsake them, and cleave 



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unto the woman whom he makes his wife. "And their 
flesh shall be as one." Mind you, their flesh shall be 
one, not their spirits. Here Scripture declares mar- 
riage to be a fleshly institution and if marriage be a 
fleshy institution and as the flesh is anti-spiritual, of 
course the natural birth is anti-spiritual. But the 
Scripture tells us, Genesis 2 :25 : "And they were both 
naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed." 
Their flesh had not become one, they had not known 
each other sexually and gratified the law of lust. 
Genesis 3:7: "And the eyes of them both were open 
and they knew that they were naked." They had then 
partaken of the forbidden fruit, yielded to the law of 
lust and known each other sexually and knew good from 
evil, that is, the difference between the physical and 
spiritual man and their natures. They had taken into 
their spiritual consciousness the law of lust and the 
carnal mind. Man had fallen and mind you they were 
man and wife. Their flesh had become one and they 
knew that marriage was a fleshly institution and not 
spiritual and holy. "And the Lord said unto the wom- 
an what is that thou hast done, and the woman said The 
serpent beguiled me and I did eat" (Genesis 3:13). 
Here the woman's spiritual consciousness was speaking 
through her God ; was speaking to her through the pow- 
er of the Spirit and her spiritual nature answered that 
the lust of flesh — "the serpent beguiled me" — that is, 
deceived me — "and I did eat" — that is I yielded to the 
power of the flesh and sexual passion. "And the Lord 
God called unto Adam and said, Where art thou? and 
he said, I heard a voice in the garden and I was afraid 
because I was naked and I hid myself. And he said, 
who told thee that thou was naked? Hast thou eaten 
of the tree whereof I commanded thee what thou 
shouldst not eat? And the man said, The woman 



134 The Truth About the Bible. 

whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the 
tree and I did eat." That is to say, the woman ac- 
cording to sexual law and sexual passion had tempted 
Adam and the fleshly man Adam had yielded to the law 
of lust and sexual passion." And unto Adam, He said, 
"Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy 
wife and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded 
thee, saying thou shalt not eat of it; cursed is the 
ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all 
the days of thy life" (Genesis 3:17. "And unto the 
woman He said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and 
thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth chil- 
dren" (Genesis 3 :16) . "In the sweat of thy face shalt 
thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground; for 
out of it was thou taken for dust thou art and unto dust 
shalt thou return" (Genesis 3:19). Here we have the 
penalty inflicted upon the physical man for indulging 
in the law of lust and gratifying the carnal mind and 
physical death as the final result. Sexual passion, lust 
and the carnal mind, means physical death and likewise 
spiritual death when the spiritual man takes the law 
of lust and the state of the carnal mind into his spirit- 
ual consciousness. 

"So he drove out the man and he placed at the east 
of the garden of Eden cherubims and a flaming sword 
which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of 
life" (Genesis 3:24. He turned man out of his spirit- 
ual state of happiness when he took into his spiritual 
consciousness the law of the flesh, lust and sexual 
passion which was consuming to his spiritual life ; and 
this fleshly nature and carnal mind like a flaming 
sword has turned every way to keep man from enjoying 
his state of spiritual life from the first day the first 
man yielded to his sexual passion and knew the first 
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This fleshly nature and sexual passion has turned 
every way like a flaming sword burning in the man's 
spiritual consciousness keeping him away from the tree 
of life — killing and burning out his spiritual life and 
preventing him from entering into his state of spiritual 
happiness and harmony with God and God's spiritual 
laws. 

Around the generative organs and sexual passion, 
the battle of heaven and hell has raged from the time 
of the first man and the first woman and will until the 
end of time — until the flesh is no more and death has 
lost its power over life — until the fleshly man is no 
more and the spiritual man liveth and reigneth forever. 

"The Pharisees also came unto Him tempting Him 
and saying unto Him, Is it lawful for a man to put away 
his wife for every cause? And He answered and said 
unto them — have ye not read that He which made them 
at the beginning made them male and female, and said, 
For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and 
cleave to his wife and their twain shall be one flesh? 
Wherefore they are no more twain but one flesh. 
What therefore God hath joined together let not man 
put asunder. They said unto Him, Why did Moses then 
command to give writing of divorcement and to put 
away? He said unto them, Moses, because of the hard- 
ness of your hearts, suffered you to put away your 
wives; but from the beginning it was not so. And I 
say unto you, whosoever shall put away his wife, ex- 
cept for fornication, and shall marry another, com- 
mitteth adultery; and who so marrieth her, which is 
put away, doth commit adultery. His disciples said 
unto him, If the case of a man be so with his wife, it is 
not good to marry. But he said unto them all, men can- 
not receive this saying save they to whom it is given. 
For there are some eunuchs which were so born from 



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their mother's womb ; and there are some eunuchs which 
were made eunuchs of men ; and there be eunuchs which 
made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's 
sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive." 

The orthodox theologian who preaches a man- 
made theology attempting to worship God through the 
physical senses and by the carnal mind has quoted from 
the time of Christ, the words of Christ here quoted: 
"For this cause man shall leave father and mother and 
shall cleave to his wife and they twain shall be one 
flesh. Wherefore they are no more twain but one 
flesh. What, therefore, God hath joined together let 
not man put asunder," as authority for spiritualizing 
marriage and the natural birth and making it a sacra- 
ment of the church. They have interpreted the Mas- 
ter's words to mean one thing in order to please their 
physical senses and to gratify their sexual lust and the 
lust of the human family when the Master intended to 
convey just the opposite as the spiritual truth. He was 
here quoting Moses, "For this cause a man shall leave 
his father and his mother and cleave unto his wife," to 
demonstrate the consuming fire, passion and death of 
fleshly lust. "And their twain shall be one flesh." 
Here He declares that their separate flesh for the law 
of lust shall unite and become one — their two fleshly 
personalities shall be consumed into one by the burn- 
ing power of lust. Mind you, he does not say "Their 
spirits shall become a union by virtue of marriage." 
He here declares marriage to be a human and fleshly 
institution based on the law of sexual lust. "Wherefore 
they are no more twain but one flesh,.' meaning, of 
course, that after their fleshly natures and physical 
personalities have met through the law of sexual pas- 
sion, so binding and consuming is this lustful nature, 
that the physical man and woman and their carnal 



Marriage and the Natural Birth. 137 

minds meet and are held together and become one in 
reproducing the physical man. "What therefore God 
hath joined together let not man put asunder." The 
Master intended to convey by this declaration the nat- 
ural law of the physical man. The natural law of the 
physical man mates the male and female and the law 
of passion binds them and holds them together. And 
He meant here to declare for no man to attempt to in- 
terfere with natural law and that natural law mates 
the sexes and that God made all things including nat- 
ural law, and therefore, what God hath joined together, 
through the natural law, let not man put asunder. He 
meant here to declare that natural law was greater 
than the works of man and that man could not inter- 
vene or prevent natural law, and should not try — or at- 
tempt to prevent — the natural workings of natural law 
in the physical universe. He was here declaring that 
marriage was physical, and a human institution, and that 
it is not according to the artificial devices of man. Moses 
taught the same truth. And all history proves that the 
teachings of Moses, the Prophets, Christ and the Apos- 
tles on this question are correct according to the natural 
law. Nature proves it also. The lower animal crea- 
tion mates according to the natural law — they select 
their mates according to the wisdom of taste as pro- 
vided by nature, with the result that they produce 
healthy and strong offspring — and the lower animal 
creation reproduce from generation to generation and 
remain healthy and strong except when man interferes 
with their reproduction by the wisdom of natural law 
through artificial intervention. Then the lower ani- 
mal creation, that is, when man interferes with their 
natural reproduction according to the wisdom of nat- 
ural law, becomes weak and sickly, frail and delicate 



138 The Truth About the Bible. 

and short lived. Natural law mates the sexes and 
Christ intended to convey the principle that man 
should not interfere with this natural law and the 
sexes should not mate for artificial reasons and by 
artificial law. The human family — when in a bar- 
baric state — obeyed the law here declared to be the 
truth by Christ — and the human race was strong and 
uealthy. But civilized man has violated this law and 
the sexes have mated for artificial purposes, for money, 
social position, position in state, and all other artificial 
reasons and man-made purposes, with the result that 
the human family has become physically and mentally 
weak, suffering and wracking in pain and sorrow — dy- 
ing in misery and torture after a few days, and a short 
life of physical suffering and disappointment. The 
members of the sexes which God joined together 
through natural law in marriage — a fleshly institution 
— man has put asunder and mated the sexes for artifi- 
cial reasons to suit his own convenience and the human 
family has paid the penalty. 

But Christ, turning from this subject as a fleshy 
institution according to the natural law — addresses 
His hearers upon the effect of the carnal mind and the 
physical man, as united in marriage by virtue of sexual 
passion according to the natural law, upon the spiritual 
man and the spiritual life. He declares marriage to be 
a physical and fleshly institution based on the law of 
the passion of the sexes according to natural law and is 
anti-spiritual in its nature. "And he said unto them, 
he that putteth away his wife committeth adultery." 
That is adultery according to the natural law. Adul- 
tery means, "not pure, something mixed with the orig- 
inal." He means here to say that "he who putteth 
away his wife, whom nature mated for him violateth 
nature's law and mixes man's artificial law with nat- 



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ural law in order to gratify his lust." He did not mean 
or intend to mean that marriage or the physical repro- 
duction is a spiritual institution. "All men cannot re- 
ceive this saying save they to whom it is given. For 
there are some eunuchs which are so born from their 
mothers' womb and there are some eunuchs which were 
made eunuchs of men — and there be eunuchs which 
made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven's 
sake." "He that is able to receive, let him receive it." 
Here the Master declared that there u are few" who have 
reached that deep spiritual state of consciousness where 
they realize and understand that marriage and the nat- 
ural birth is based on the law of lust. Here He de- 
clared that the natural birth and the spiritual birth, 
the physical man and the spiritual man, are opposite 
natures and governed by opposite laws — one the nat- 
ural, the other is spiritual. "And there be eunuchs 
which have made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom 
of Heaven's sake." Here He declares that there be 
some who have reached the state of spiritual conscious- 
ness and deep spiritual life whereby they are enabled 
to deny the law of lust — sexual passion — and shut out 
the carnal mind from their spiritual consciousness and 
spiritual life. "He that is able to receive it let him 
receive it." Here he admonishes his hearers to let all 
those who have reached that deep spiritual life and 
state of spiritual consciousness necessary to deny the 
law of lust and sexual passion, whereby the physical 
man is reproduced to receive His teachings, that mar- 
riage and the physical birth is natural and unholy and 
anti-spiritual, as a spiritual truth. 

"But I say unto you that whosoever looketh upon 
a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery 
with her already in his heart" Matt. 5 :28) . Here the 
Master declares adultery to be one of spiritual con- 



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sciousness — that is, adulterating the law of the Spirit 
with the law of the flesh, permitting consciousness 
of the lust: of the flesh — to enter your spiritual con- 
sciousness; just as Adam and Eve did in the Garden of 
Eden, and Adam and Eve were husband and wife. 

Gratifying the lust of the flesh is no less spiritual 
because it is performed under the human forms of a 
marriage ceremony, which is a human and physical insti- 
tution. Marriage is a human institution based on phys- 
ical and natural laws for the purpose of regulating the 
physical man in his domestic affairs and prompts the 
parental to care for the offspring. 

Marriage is a physical and not a spiritual institu- 
tion — it is a fleshly and not spiritual in its nature — 
and was so dealt with as a physical and fleshly institu- 
tion and anti-spiritual by Moses, the Prophets, Christ 
and Apostles and the Fathers of the "Early Church." 
Marriages are of this world and not of the other world 
and pertain to the natural life and not to the spiritual 
life. 

"The same day came to him the Sadducees, which 
say that there is no resurrection, and asked him, say- 
ing, Master, Moses said if a man die, having no chil- 
dren, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up 
seed unto his brother. Now there were with us seven 
brethren; and the first when he had married a wife, 
deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his 
brother; likewise the second also and the third, unto 
the seventh. And last of all the woman died also. 
Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be 
of the seven? for they all had her. Jesus answered 
and -said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the Scrip- 
tures, nor the power of God, for in the resurrection 
they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are 
as angels of God in Heaven. But as touching the res- 



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urrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was 
spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abra- 
ham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ? God 
is not the God of the dead, but of the living" (Matt. 
22:23-32). God is the God of the Spirit and not the 
God of the fleshly man. "Then came unto him the 
Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection ; and they 
asked him saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a 
man's brother die and leave his wife behind him, and 
leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, 
and raise up seed unto his brother. Now there were 
seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying 
left no seed. And the second took her and died, neither 
left he any seed : and the third likewise. And the seven 
had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died 
also. In the resurrection therefore when they shall 
rise, whose wife shall she be of them? For the seven 
had her to wife. And Jesus answering said unto them, 
Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the Scrip- 
tures, neither the power of God ? For when they shall 
rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given 
in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heav- 
en. And as touching the dead, that they rise ; have ye 
not read in the book of Moses how in the bush God 
spoke unto him, saying I am the God of Abraham, and 
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ? He is not the 
God of the dead, but the God of the living ; ye therefore 
do greatly err" (Mark 12:18-27). We here see that 
Christ dealt with marriage as a human institution and 
not a spiritual institution — and that it pertains to the 
natural man and not the spiritual man. He dealt with 
it as a part of the nature of the fleshly man and being 
distinct and separate from the spiritual man. He de- 
clared it to be a part of the fleshly man and of this 
world not to be connected with the spiritual man and 



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the life to come. He drew the line of demarcation be- 
tween the physical man and the spiritual man and de- 
clared only the physical man to be concerned with mar- 
riage during the natural life. In other words He de- 
clared it to be a human institution founded on the law 
of lust by which the physical man is propagated and in 
the very nature of things contrary to the spiritual man 
and the spiritual birth and the spiritual life to come. 
He dealt with it as an earthly institution rather than 
a heavenly institution and declared it to have no part 
in the spiritual kingdom. 

"Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote 
unto me; is it good for a man not to touch a woman, 
nevertheless to avoid fornication let every man have his 
own wife and let every woman have her own husband" 
(1 Cor. 7:17). Here Paul declares that it is good for 
man not to touch a woman, that is to say, that sexual 
lust is anti-spiritual in its very nature, and that sexual 
passion is anti-spiritual in its very nature, and that 
sexual passion is anti-spiritual and is killing and death 
to the spiritual man, but if man cannot control his 
sexual passion, it is better morally — and as a human 
institution for each man to have one woman and for 
each woman to have one man, and thereby curb and 
check and hold their lust in restraint — and not let it 
become the absolute master of the spiritual man by 
gratifying the lust of the flesh promisciously, indulging 
sexually at will with the multitude of the opposite sex. 

"For I would that all men were even as myself. 
But every man hath his proper gift of God— one after 
this manner and another after that. I say therefore 
to the unmarried and the widows — it is good for them 
if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, 
let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn" 
(Cor. 1:7-9). Here the Apostle declares that marriage 



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is anti-spiritual and therefore the human birth is unholy 
and non-spiritual. That the war between the flesh 
and the Spirit is irrepressible and that the natural birth 
and the spiritual birth are irreconciliable. That one is 
of the flesh and the other of the Spirit. That marriage 
and the natural birth originate in the lust of the carnal 
mind — and that the spiritual birth originates in the 
spiritual mind. That one is of the flesh and the other 
of the Spirit. But if the lust of the physical man is so 
consuming that the spiritual man cannot control it that 
it is better to marry than to burn — that is to say, if 
the spiritual man cannot control the lust of the physical 
man that it is best for the physical man to marry, not 
as a matter of spirituality but as a matter of morality 
— for marriage at best is only a moral institution and 
not a spiritual institution. It is of this world and the 
flesh and not of the Spirit and the world to come. 

"Then when lust has conceived it bringeth forth 
sin; and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death" 
(1 James 1:15). Here the Apostle declares that lust 
is based on the law of sin and death and when it is fin- 
ished it bringeth forth death. The Apostle is in accord 
with Moses in the story of the Creation; when Adam 
and Eve, the first woman and the first man ; were over- 
come by passion and the lust of the flesh, God said unto 
thera "for this cause thou shalt return to dust." The 
physical man's creation is based upon the law of lust 
and passion. He comes into this world by the consum- 
ing lust of sexual passion which is anti-spiritual and 
contrary to the Spirit and Life, therefore must die. 
Lust is conceived in sin and when it is finished it is 
death. Man is conceived in sin according to the law 
of lust and sexual passion — that is the physical man — 
therefore he must die and return to dust. 

"Behold I was shaped in iniquity and in sin did my 



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mother conceive me" (Psalm 55:5). Here the Psalm- 
ist recognizes the difference between the physical man 
and the spiritual man, the spiritual birth and the phys- 
ical birth. He recognizes the fact that he — the phys- 
ical man — was conceived in passion and lust which is 
sin and anti-spiritual and contrary to the spiritual man 
and contrary to God and God's spiritual universe, and 
that he was shapen in iniquity in his mother's womb, 
and yet he, David, was of the house of Israel and the 
forerunner of the Christ — that is, he, David, the spir- 
itual man, was of the house of Israel, God's spiritual 
kingdom and the forerunner of the Christ, the Chief 
and High Priest in God's spiritual universe — but that 
he, David, the physical man, was conceived through 
passion and by the law of lust and shapened in his 
mother's womb in iniquity and that he, David, the phys- 
ical man was contrary to God and God's spiritual uni- 
verse — in rebellion against God — God's spiritual laws 
and God's spiritual universe Job 14:4: "Who can 
bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one." Here 
Job is asking how can the physical man be brought 
forth a spiritual being out of the physical woman who 
conceived him in lust and sexual passion? He recog- 
nizes that the physical man, being conceived in passion 
by the law of lust is unclean spiritually — that is, anti- 
spiritual in his nature. "But man dieth, and wasteth 
away ; yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he ?" 
(Job 14:10. Here Job declares that the unclean man 
— that is, the physical man who is conceived in lust and 
sin — dieth and wasteth away and giveth up the ghost 
That the physical man which is conceived in sin and 
lust perisheth and returneth unto dust and giveth up 
the spiritual man which returneth to God who made 
him in His own image. There is no reconciliation be- 
tween the physical man and the spiritual man. The 



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physical man is conceived in lust and passion and 
must die, for he is anti-spiritual in his nature. The 
spiritual man was made by God in His own image and 
is life eternal and must and will live on eternally. 

" Which were born, not of blood, nor the will of 
flesh, nor the will of man, but of God" (John 1:13). 
Here John recognizes the difference between the spir- 
itual man and the physical man, the spiritual birth and 
the physical birth and that the spiritual birth and the 
spiritual man is of God and is life and light eternal and 
that the physical birth and the physical man is of the 
flesh — lust and passion — and is destruction and death. 
"Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born 
again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3 :3) . 
Here Jesus was addressing Nicodemus, a Ruler of the 
Jews, and the Master was driving home the truth to 
the conscience of this Ruler and Teacher that there was 
a difference between the physical man and the spiritual 
man and that the physical man was conceived in sin 
and lust and in the end must die and that the spiritual 
man whom God made in His image is light and life. 
The Master was declaring the eternal truth to the chil- 
dren of men that the physical conception and birth is 
sin and death and that the spiritual birth is light and 
life. He was declaring the eternal truth upon which 
God's spiritual universe was founded, that there is no 
harmony between Spirit and matter and that the physi- 
cal man is conceived in lust and passion and must return 
to dust and that the physical creation must pass away 
and that the Spiritual Universe which is God the Uni- 
versal Personal Spiritual Intelligence shall live and 
reign for ever and ever. The Master was declaring the 
everlasting spiritual truth and spiritual law that the 
physical man conceived in passion, lust and sin hath no 
part in this spiritual kingdom. 



146 The Truth About the Bible. 

"Nicodemus saith unto Him, how can a man be 
born when he is old? Can he enter the second time 
into his mother's womb, and be born ? Jesus answered, 
Verily, verily, I say unto thee except a man be oorn of 
water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of 
God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh ; and that 
which is born of the Spirit is Spirit" (John 4:5, 6). 
Here the Master clearly recognizes the difference be- 
tween the spiritual and the natural birth and the spir- 
itual and the natural man and the man born of the flesh 
has no part in the spiritual kingdom. His father may 
have been united to the woman who gave him physical 
birth by all the priestly rights of Christendom and 
Paganism and yet he still is conceived in sin and shaped 
in iniquity in his mother's womb and he, the fleshly man, 
who was brought forth as the result of the law of lust 
and passion and hath no part in the spiritual kingdom. 
His parents may have stood at the Altar of Christendom 
and Paganism and all the priestcraft of the world may 
have performed marriage ceremonies and burned in- 
cense, yet their marriage was a human institution 
based on the law of flesh, passion and lust and the phys- 
ical child born of the parents is conceived in sin and 
shapen in iniquity and knoweth not spiritual things 
and hath no part in God's spiritual kingdom. 

Marriage is a human institution and as such is so 
treated in the Bible. The Bible differentiates between 
marriage as a divine institution and a human institu- 
tion; between marriage as fleshly institution and a 
spiritual institution. Nowhere in the Bible, from Gen- 
esis to Revelations, is marriage considered as a spirit- 
ual institution but Holy Writ treats the union of the 
sexes for the purpose of reproduction as a human and 
fleshly institution and declares it to be the most bind- 
ing tie known to the carnal mind and fleshly nature. 



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It is a consummation of the essence of the flesh and is 
so treated in Holy Writ. There is nothing else which 
binds the sexes together in their fleshly nature like the 
law of passion by which they reproduce. 

So binding and consuming is this law of lust and 
passion between the sexes that Holy Writ uses this 
fleshly law of lust of the sexes as a comparison to dem- 
onstrate the union of Christ and His church. Com- 
paring Christ to the groom and the Church to a bride. 
The consuming essence of the law of lust and passion 
between the sexes is the most consuming fire known to 
feshly nature and the carnal mind and hence the in- 
spired writers use the tie of this consuming passion 
which holds the sexes together to demonstrate and il- 
lustrate spiritually, the binding tie between Christ and 
his church. "Let us be glad and rejoice, and give 
honor to Him ; for the marriage of the Lamb is come, 
and His wife hath made herself ready" (Rev. 19:7). 
Here the inspired writer searching for an illustration 
to convey the idea to the mind of the spiritual man of 
the consuming love and binding tie of Christ and His 
church uses the analogy of the consuming passion of 
the lust of the sexes of the fleshly man. The passion 
of the sexes is the lust which holds the carnal mind and 
binds the sexes together. The love of the Spirit and 
spiritual things is that which holds and binds Christ 
and His church — the spiritual man and Christ — togeth- 
er. One is a fleshly tie and fleshly union, the other is 
a spiritual tie and a spiritual union. 

We do not intend to convey the idea that marriage 
is an immoral institution but that it is not a spiritual 
institution. Nowhere in the Bible is it treated as a 
spiritual and holy institution but Holy Writ treats it 
as a human and moral institution. The Human man, is 
propogated by the law of lust and passion, and is there- 



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fore anti-spiritual in his nature and the means whereby 
he is conceived and propagated is anti-spiritual but to 
curb his passion and lustful nature, the law of nature 
mates the sexes for the purpose of propagation and this 
mating of the sexes should be and is, in all civilized 
countries, treated as a human and moral institution. 
Holy Writ recognizes this law and deals with the mat- 
ing of the sexes physically and marriage as a human 
and moral institution. "Who can find a virtuous wom- 
an? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her 
husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have 
no need to spoil" (Proverbs 31:10-11). "A virtuous 
woman is a crown to her husband : but she that maketh 
ashamed is as rottenness in his bones'' (Proverbs 
12:4). 

"But speak thou the things which become sound 
doctrine ; that the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, 
sound in faith, in charity, in patience. The aged wom- 
en likewise, that they be in behavior as becometh holi- 
ness, no false accusers, not given to much wine, teach 
ers of good things ; that they may teach the young wom- 
en to be sober, to love their husband, to love their chil- 
dren, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obe- 
dient to their own husbands, that the word of God be 
not blasphemed" (Titus 2:1-5). "Let the deacons be 
the husband of one wife, ruling their children and their 
own houses well" (Timothy 3 :12) . 

Here we see that marriage is treated in Holy Writ 
not as a spiritual institution but as a human and moral 
institution. That the mating of the sexes for the pur- 
pose of propagating the race and the physical man is 
recognized as a necessity according to natural law and 
is treated according to natural law and not acccrding to 
spiritual law. That the sexes should mate and the lust 
of the sexual passion should only be indulged for the 



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purpose of propagating the race and reproducing the 
physical man is clearly recognized by Scripture. And 
the physical man being anti-spiritual, the indulgence of 
lust and sexual passion, even for the purpose of proga- 
gating the race and producing physical man, is anti- 
spiritual. There is not anything spiritual in mating 
the sexes and gratifying sexual passion and the lust 
of the flesh. The Scripture clearly condemns it as 
anti-spiritual and contrary to every spiritual law and 
the spiritual man. "For Adam was first formed, and 
then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the wom- 
an being deceived was in the transgression. Notwith- 
standing she shall be saved in child-bearing, if they 
continue in faith and charity and holiness and so- 
briety" (Timothy 1:13-15). Here the Scripture clear- 
ly recognizes that the fall of man was sexual inter- 
course and that it was Eve's passion which tempted her 
and that Adam yielded to the lust of the flesh as tempt- 
ed by the passion of the woman and that the physical 
man is conceived in sin ; however by observing the law 
of the Spirit and being spiritual minded, this trans- 
gression of the spiritual law by the law of lust and 
passion may be overcome. 

Holy Writ, from Genesis to Revelations, declares the 
physical man is conceived in sin and shapen in iniquity 
and is brought into existence by virtue of the law of 
lust and passion, which is anti-spiritual ; and treats the 
mating of the sexes and the marriage relation as a 
human institution for the purpose of propagating the 
physical man. Marriage was instituted for the pur- 
pose of preserving morality and regulating the passion 
and lust of the flesh. Marriage is based on natural and 
not spiritual law. According to natural law it is the 
instinct of the animal creation for the parent to care 
for the offspring. This is the wisdom of the economy 



150 The Truth About the Bible. 

of natural creation and yet it is based on the the law 
of selfishness which is anti-spiritual. The young child 
when born needs care and attention that it may be 
raised to maturity; so does the offspring of all other 
animal creation. As a matter of creative wisdom the 
instinct is placed in the parent of all animal creation 
to care for its offspring. This is necessary in order 
that the offspring may be nourished, cared for, and 
raised to maturity. This law runs through all animal 
creation and it is as necessary with the lower animals 
as it is with man and yet it is based on the law of sel- 
fishness which in the very nature of things is anti- 
spiritual. The parent — the physical father and mother 
— care for their physical child, love it according to 
natural law, nourish it, care for it, raise it because it 
is a part of their physical life and offspring of their 
physical life. Not because inherently they care for the 
child, but according to natural law and the law of 
selfishness which is anti-spiritual they wish to perpet- 
uate their own physical existence. 

All other children, according to spiritual law and 
spiritual life, would be just as dear and just as sacred 
to them for there is no selfishness in the spiritual king- 
dom and under spiritual law by which the spiritual 
kingdom is governed. The material creation and the 
animal kingdom is governed by natural law which is 
selfishness. The spiritual kingdom is governed by 
Divine law, which is Love. 

Marriage is based not only on the law of lust but 
mutual selfishness. The female mates with the male 
because she thinks that he can give her the greatest 
amount of pleasure in gratifying her lust and passion, 
and the male mates with the female because, according 
to natural law, she appeals most intensely and con- 
sumingly to his passion and lust. When mated sexual- 



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ly, and each satisfies the passion and lust of the other ; 
the natural man calls this "love" and the carnal mind 
is satisfied and in an ideal state of happinness. But if 
they are unevenly mated sexually the world for po- 
liteness' sake says "they are unhappily married." Out 
of this law of mutual selfishness rages the passion of 
jealousy and envy. If they are mated sexually and 
each satisfies the lust and passion of the other, they are 
jealous of each other. The female lives in a constant 
state of fear that some other member of her sex will 
attract the passion and lust of her mate and that he will 
be drawn away from her and divide his lust and passion 
with another member of her sex. The male is contin- 
ually in a state of uneasiness and watching his mate for 
fear that she may be attracted by some other member 
of his sex who will prove more satisfying to her, her 
passion and lustful nature. This law runs all through 
the animal kingdom. It is lust which holds sexes to- 
gether — and lust and passion and selfishness is based 
on the natural law and the carnal mind, and is anti- 
spiritual in their nature. The male does not mate with 
the female for the joy, the pleasure and the happiness 
he can give to the female, but for the pleasure and the 
gratification that the female can give him in the sat- 
is faction of his lust and passion. The female does 
not mate with the male to please and to gratify the 
male but for the gratification of her lust and sexual 
passion. Marriage is based on mutual selfishness of 
lust and passion. Out of this lust and passion comes 
jealousy, envy and hatred. The gratification of lust 
and passion is the essence of selfishness. When the 
male suspects that the female is not true to him he 
wants to kill and murder. When the female doubts 
the male, hatred and murder rages within her. Around 
the selfishness of lust and passion, the war of hell rages 



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and battles against the Spirit of heaven. Either sex 
may be generous and kind hearted to all other material 
things but when it comes to lust and passion, will kill 
and murder. The law of selfishness reigns supremely 
then. The female to whom the male declares the most 
intense devotion when she is gratifying his lust and 
passion today will murder her tomorrow when he 
doubts her loyalty. The female who today weeps tears 
of joy in her devotion to the male who gratifies her 
lust and passion and whom she claims as her own, will 
murder him tomorrow, if she believes another has 
gained the affection of his carnal mind. Mutual sel- 
fishness and the law of lust and passion is the bond 
which holds the sexes together. That is what the 
Scripture means when it says "their flesh shall be one." 

Where is the student of human nature who has not 
observed the devotion of the sexes to each other when 
each was gratifying the lust and passion of the other 
and then how hatred, malice and murder reign within 
their hearts when they doubted the loyalty to each other 
in fleshly things. 

O ! man, would thou understand the Bible ? Would 
thou know God's Revelation to man ? If so, know thy- 
self. God's revelation is a perfect picture of thy hu- 
man and spiritual self. The Bible is the Mirror into 
which thou canst look and see the depravity of thy 
physical self and the divinity of thy spiritual self. 

When the sexes are equally mated their love is mu- 
tual. When one gives out sexually before the other 
then the law of nature creates discord. The one that 
is the weaker sexually looks upon the other with hatred 
and as a brute. The one that is stronger sexually looks 
upon the other with contempt and goes elsewhere to 
gratify the lust of the flesh. Then dissatisfaction and 
disloyalty and trouble begin. Their flesh is no more 



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one. They are mismated. They aie unequally mated 
sexually. Here is where the trouble in marriage re- 
lation has its origin and the world does not understand 
it. It is a fleshly institution and not a spiritual insti- 
tution and unless they are mated sexually the flesh will 
not hold them together in harmony and as the world 
calls it, "in love." 

When they are mated sexually and each gratifies 
the passion of the other and if nature holds out equally 
with them, they live it out together happily and the 
world calls it "a happy marriage." Each can satisfy 
the selfish fleshly lust of the other and their flesh is 
one. As they grow older and nature begins to fail 
them and as their passions and lust begin to decline, 
their spiritual natures develop. They then live on 
the romances of the lust of the flesh of the past, and 
as the sunset of life goes down, turn their minds to spir- 
itual things and as the end draws nearer they become 
more and more spiritual and thus live out the lust of the 
flesh together and by degrees develop into spiritual 
things and spiritual lives. By degrees they go from 
the flesh to the Spirit. 

This fleshly man in his selfish nature lives for the 
paramount purpose of trying to perpetuate himself. 
The consuming desire of his nature is to perpetuate 
himself by producing the physical man — to reproduce 
himself in offspring. Then he follows the physical 
man to the graveyard and there erects tombstones to 
his physical offspring and to his mate of passion and 
lust in an effort to perpetuate himself. Every tomb- 
stone in the graveyard and cemetery represents the 
consuming desire of the physical man to perpetuate 
himself. 

The gratifying of the lust of the flesh, whereby 
the physical man is reproduced, not only kills the phys- 



154 The Truth About the Bible. 

ical man but the spiritual man as well. The nerve sys- 
tem runs into the spinal cord and the spinal cord pro- 
jects into the brain. The brain is not the nervous sys- 
tem but the dynamo wherein the life current is sent out 
over the nervous system. The life current is generated 
in the brain and is telegraphed over the nervous system 
from the brain. The nervous system is connected with 
the brain at the end of the spinal cord just 
as the telegraph wires are connected with the 
dynamo when they come in contact with the dynamo. 
When the sexual relations take place the nervous shock 
weakens the nervous system and the power of the brain 
to transmit the life current and burns out the nervous 
system just as an overcharge of electricity flashing 
over the wire weakens the telegraph wire and burns 
out the dynamo. This life current which is generated 
in and through the brain is the innate mind of the 
spiritual man. By taking the lustful nature into man's 
consciousness he destroys his spiritual life; and in- 
dulging the lust of the flesh, kills the physical man and 
destroys his spiritual life. The human race, by giving 
away to the lust of the flesh, permitting sexual passion 
to rule and control the human family, has become phys- 
ically weak, decrepit and is suffering from all kinds of 
diseases as well as becoming spiritually dead. If the 
human family could be aroused to the truth of this nat- 
ural and spiritual law, and only indulge the sexual pas- 
sions for the purpose of reproducing ; exclude from the 
mind the thoughts of lust and passion and only indulge 
in spiritual thoughts, the human family would live out 
a natural life of good to old age without disease, suf- 
fering and pain and die a natural death when the nerv- 
ous system by degrees had gradually worn out accord- 
ing to the law of the flesh and would no longer act as 



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a conductor for spiritual life and vitality into the phys- 
ical man. 

Three fourths of the females of the human race die 
at that period known as the "change of life," and why? 
Because for generations the physical man has lived for 
the lust of the flesh and by indulging his fleshly pas- 
sions has from generation to generation weakened the 
power of the brain to act as a generator of the life cur- 
rent and of the nerve system as a conductor of the life 
current. When the female reaches that period known 
as "the change of life" and her sexual organs decline 
and fail to discharge the poisonous matter peculiar to 
her sex, accumulated in her system, her nervous system 
is too weak to dispose of it and eliminate it from her 
system through the kidneys and bowels and pores of 
the skin. Hence, it remains in her body and gradually 
poisons her entire system ; disarranges her nervous sys- 
tem and brain until physical death follows. Moses and 
the Teachers of Israel dealt with all of these physical 
laws as revealed to them and man has never been able 
to improve upon them. 

The theologian of the modern so-called "orthodox 
theology" preaches to the natural man and his physical 
senses because the natural man wants fleshly and 
physical things preached to his physical senses and car- 
nal mind. The spiritual man is separate from the 
physical man and the physical man cannot understand 
spiritual things and the spiritual mind. - Marriage and 
the natural birth by degrees was adopted into the 
church as a part of the faith of the church because the 
church gradually drifted from the spiritual man to the 
physical man. By degrees, from generation to gen- 
eration, the church as a spiritual institution became a 
physical institution of the material man. The carnal 
mind naturally worships through the physical senses 



156 The Truth About the Bible. 

and the physical god and exists for the lust of the flesh 
and believes the natural birth to be the only and the 
real birth. The spires and steeples on the churches 
of Christendom in our modern civilization represent 
this idea. The pagans believed in the physical man as 
divine and the natural birth as holy. The sexual or- 
gans represented to their minds the means of immor- 
tality. That is, the power of man to reproduce himself 
and to perpetuate the human race and hence they wor- 
ship the sexual organs as immortal. 

The steeples and spires that materialized Chris- 
tainty, under the direction of the carnal mind, has 
placed on the churches of Christendom pointing heav- 
enward represent the generative organs of the male, 
the idea having been taken from pagan religions. 

Carrying out this physical law accounts for why 
more females attend church since Christianity has been 
materialized and adulterated to appeal to the physical 
senses of man, then men. The priests, ministers and 
preachers are males and hence unconsciously the phys- 
ical nature of the female is appealed to and in their 
physical nature they become church workers. But the 
male has largely lost interest in the materialized theo- 
logical system which passes for modern Christianity; 
but change the condition and let the priesthood become 
priestess and the pastors and preachers women, young 
and attractive so as to appeal to the law of the opposite 
sex, and men will become the church goers and the 
women will remain at home. When the pastor becomes 
aged, but spiritual, he is not attractive to the opposite 
sex physically, he is disposed of and a young man who 
appeals to the sexual laws is placed in his stead. We 
see this daily. The theological dogma of the trinity 
which appeals to the physical senses of man had the 
same origin. Three in one and one in three. The 



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physical senses of man and the carnal mind attempted 
to spiritualize the physical man and the physical wom- 
an into one — that their flesh should become one and 
that their offspring should be the union and the prod- 
uct of the union of this lustful nature of the opposite 
sex — into one — the father, mother and the son. The 
pagans had the same idea. Their carnal mind had a 
god for the love of lust, a god for the hatred of the flesh 
and a god for every attribute of the carnal mind. They 
had a multiplicity of gods to appeal to and satisfy every 
attribute of hatred and love of the carnal mind and 
physical man. The carnal mind in its effort to ma- 
terialize spiritual things brought these pagan ideas of 
the physical man into the Christian system and adult- 
erated the spirituality of Christianity with materialism 
and the lust and passion of the carnal mind. 

There is one God— a Universal Personal Spiritual 
Intelligence and His expression and manifestation of 
Himself to the spiritual man whom He made in His 
image is the Holy Ghost; and Christ, conceived by the 
power of the Spirit and who was with the Father from 
all eternity and in harmony with every spiritual law 
and the Spiritual Universe and a part of the Universal 
Spiritual life, is His son. And this is the God of the 
Bible, the God of Revelation. Christ only claimed to 
be the Son of the Father — the one God — the Universal 
Personal Spiritual Intelligence which created and gov- 
erns all things and He only claimed the Holy Ghost to 
be the manifestation of that God to His spiritual cre- 
atures. The idea of a multiplicity of gods had its origin 
in the carnal mind of the fleshly man of the heathen re- 
ligions. And they had their chief god and subordinate 
gods whom the chief god controlled and directed. The 
carnal mind and physical man appealing to the physical 
senses of the material man brought this idea into and 



158 The Truth About the Bible, 

adopted it as a part of the Christian religion ; which is 
contrary to the Bible, for Revelation teaches that God 
is a Universal Personal Intelligent Spirit and manifests 
Himself to His creatures spiritually and that Christ 
was conceived by the power of the Spirit and is His 
spiritual Son conceived without lust — law of the flesh 
— and sexual passion, and upon this cardinal prin- 
ciple and divine truth, the truth of the Christian sys- 
tem stands or falls. 

The heathen and pagan religions made the gratifi- 
cations of the lust of the flesh and the physical birth 
pleasing to the gods and divine in the sight of the gods ; 
and the carnal mind and the physical man brought over 
the same idea and adopted it as a part of the Christian 
system. 

But the heathens and the pagans were wiser than 
the physical man who pretends to believe in the Chris- 
tian system. The heathens and the believers in the 
pagan religions mated according to natural law. They 
let the economy and wisdom of nature mate the sexes. 
Sexual passion and the lust of the flesh being the all 
controlling power of the physical man, they permitted 
it in its wisdom to work out its own destiny and the 
sexes to mate as they were drawn to each other sexual- 
ly according to natural law, with the result that they 
produced strong vigorous physical men and women. 
The lower animal kingdom is governed by the same 
law. But when the physical man adultered the Chris- 
tian system and attempted to spiritualize marriage and 
the natural birth and at the same time married for ar- 
tificial purposes — wealth, social position, family influ- 
ence, legal caste — regardless of natural law, they began 
to produce a race of physical weaklings, dwarfs, imbe- 
ciles, wracked with pain and suffering. 

Moses and the inspired writers dealt with this 



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question and Revelation tells us the truth concerning 
it and the physical man and the carnal mind cannot im- 
prove upon what God has revealed to man. 

The priest of the Catholic world attempts to con- 
trol this carnal mind and law of lust by the confession- 
al box; ministers of the Protestant world attempt to 
control the passion of man and the lust of the flesh by 
appealing to the nervous system during what they call 
revivals. Neither teach the people the truth. The 
human family knows that there is something wrong, 
the spiritual man realizes that he is in bondage to some 
power and he cries out to be free, but he does not real- 
ize that this power which he is bound to in shackles 
and slavery and which is destroying his spiritual life is 
the fleshly man and that the power of the fleshly man 
over the spiritual man has its source of evil and bond- 
age in the sexual organs, sexual passion and the lust 
of the flesh. And as a rule the priest and minister and 
the theologian who should instruct the human family 
as to this truth are the most ignorant people of the 
entire human family as to the most vital truth which 
affects the human race. They have confounded the 
physical man with the spiritual man and the natural 
birth with the spiritual birth. The human race is grop- 
ing in darkness but those who should show them the 
way into the path of truth, life and light are in dark- 
ness themselves. It is the blind leading the blind. 

Lust is lust, whether gratified under the ceremony 
of marriage or by fornication or adultery. The grati- 
fication of the lust of the flesh is contrary to the spir- 
itual man and spiritual life. We do not mean to say that 
the human family can, would or should absolutely ab- 
stain from sexual relation. It is necessary for the propa- 
gation of the race. But we do mean to say that it is 
anti-spiritual and that the lust of the flesh should be 



160 The Truth About the Bible. 

controlled and subdued by the spiritual man and kept 
under the control of the spiritual man as much as possi- 
ble. We do not mean to say that marriage should not 
be instituted and maintained by the human family for 
it is necessary according to natural law and according 
to the law of lust and the flesh to maintain morals and 
social order. But we do intend to say that it is a hu- 
man and fleshly institution and not a holy and spiritual 
institution. 

Moses and Christ dealt with this idea. The Bible 
declares marriage to be a human institution and that it 
should be regulated and controlled for that purpose. 
Scripture clearly teaches that when the sexes mate they 
should be true to each other as a matter of morals and 
for the purpose of propagating the physical man, but 
nowhere does revelation teach us that it is a spiritual 
institution. Scripture further teaches us that the sexes 
should mate for the purpose of propagating the human 
race and should control and subdue their passions and 
fleshly lust and not commit adultery and fornication, 
as a matter of morals. Natural law teaches the same 
truth. The lower animal kingdom is controlled by 
natural law and obeys its decree in this respect. But 
the natural law which is taught us in revelation is based 
on selfishness, and the lust of the physical man is anti- 
spiritual and contrary to the spiritual man. 

'When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, 
and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes, 
because he hath found some uncleanliness in her; then 
let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in 
her hand, and send her out of his house. And when 
she is departed out of his house, she may go and be an- 
other man's wife" (Deuteronomy 24:1-2). Here Moses, 
for the sake of the law of lust where the sexes were not 
mated and were untrue to each other, granted a di- 



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vorce — but Christ declaring with all of His spiritual 
nature that marriage was not a spiritual institution 
but a human institution based on the law of passion 
and lust gave us the spiritual interpretation of the Mo- 
saic law. "But I say unto you that whosover shall put 
away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, 
causeth her to commit adultery; and whosoever shall 
marry her that is divorced committeth adultery" 
(Matt. 5:32). Here the Master recognizes the neces- 
sity of restraining the lust of the flesh by the mating of 
the sexes as a human institution based on the lust of 
the flesh. 

"And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of 
divorcement, and to put her away. And Jesus answered 
and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he 
wrote you this precept but from the beginning of cre- 
ation God made them male and female. For this cause 
shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall 
cleave to his wife" (Mark 10:4-7). Here the Master 
declared that it was the law of lust. That is, the hard- 
ening of the heart against spiritual things, the physical 
man overcoming the spiritual man, that caused Moses 
to grant divorce according to the Mosaic law. But He 
declared it to be contrary both to the morals and to the* 
spiritual man. In the same comment He declared mar- 
riage to be based on the natural law — the lust of the 
physical man and that this natural law should mate the 
sexes and in morals hold them together. "But from the 
beginning of creation God made them male and female 
and for this cause shall a man leave his father and his 
mother and cleave unto his wife" (Matt. 10 :6-7) . That 
is, in the beginning, according to the natural law, they 
were made male and female for the purpose of propa- 
gating the race and that the lust of the flesh and sexual 
passion is so consuming between the sexes as to 



162 The Truth About the Bible. 

cause them to leave their parents and cleave unto each 
other and that this natural law when yielded to in order 
to gratify the lust of the flesh, should be obeyed and 
its decrees observed and for the sake of moral and so- 
cial order and preserving the identity of the offspring 
the sexes when they once mate should remain together. 

All of these physical laws are revealed in God's 
Word and were taught by Moses and the inspired writ- 
ers as physical laws but modern theology has attempt- 
ed to spiritualize them. Revelation deals with but 
two truths : the physical man with his anti-spiritual na- 
ture, how to control and regulate him and to subdue 
him to the spiritual man, and the spiritual man whom 
God created in His own image. But man-made theol- 
ogy has confused the two and has attempted to spirit- 
ualize the physical man into the spiritual man. Reve- 
lation clearly differentiates between the spiritual birth 
and the physical birth — the spiritual man and the phys- 
ical man. Upon this truth depends the law and the 
Gospel — upon this truth depends the Divinity of Jesus 
Christ — the life to come and immortality. 

"For as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be 
made alive" (1 Cor. 15 :22) . That is, in the Garden of 
Eden, which was the first man's state of spiritual hap- 
piness when he was in spiritual harmony with God and 
God's spiritual laws and God's spiritual universe, the 
physical man yielded to the law of lust and sexual passion 
when tempted by the first woman, his wife, and took 
into his spiritual consciousness the law of the carnal 
mind, fleshly lust and sexual passion which was death 
to his spiritual nature; but Christ being perfect in 
Spirit was not subject to the law of lust and sexual 
passion and the carnal mind, but in perfect harmony 
with the spiritual nature of the Father, spiritual laws 
and the spiritual universe, and the spiritual man by par- 



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taking of Christ's spiritual nature can be redeemed 
from this state of consciousness wherein the law of lust 
and sexual passion has entered his state of spiritual 
consciousness and be restored to a perfect state of spir- 
itual consciousness with the Father and in harmony 
with God's spiritual laws and the spiritual universe. 
This is Redemption; this is Salvation; this is Heaven. 
The physical birth is of the physical man and non- 
spiritual. The spiritual birth is of God who made the 
spiritual man and partakes of the heavenly nature. 

If marriage be holy — if the physical conception 
and birth be spiritual — then we would have Heaven on 
this earth and the physical man would be immortal 
and the brotherly love of the physical man taught by 
the infidel world which the priesthood of the Catholic 
world and the ministers of the Protestant world have 
joined in proclaiming, in preaching a physical god 
to the physical senses of men, would be possible here 
and we would have Heaven on this earth. But the 
physical man and the carnal mind are anti-spiritual and 
at war with the spiritual man — and marriage and the 
natural birth is unholy and anti-spiritual and they must 
die and the spiritual man must be freed from the bond- 
age to them for the spiritual man to come into his own 
in the spiritual kingdom. 

Upon the truth of this principle depends wie Im- 
maculate Conception of Jesus Christ, His divinity and 
the immortality of the spiritual man. 



CHAPTER XIV. 

The Origin of Evil and Sin. 

God is Light. God is Life. God is Spirit. God 
is Good. God is Love. If God be Spirit, the opposite 
of God must be matter. If God be Love, the opposite 
of God must be hatred and malice. If God be Light 
the opposite of God must be darkness. If God be Spir- 
it and Life the opposite of God must be matter and 
death. If God be Good the opposite of God must be 
evil. If God be Life, the opposite of God must be 
death. The Scripture teaches us that before tne ma- 
terial creation was created the universe was all spirit- 
ual and that God the Universal Personal Spiritual In- 
telligence reigned supreme in His spiritual kingdom 
and that there were spiritual creatures — members of 
His spiritual kingdom. These were angels — holy and 
spiritual in their nature — they possessed Light and 
Life; they were in harmony with God's spiritual uni- 
verse — His laws and spiritual life. 

The Scripture teaches us that the Devil — one of 
these angels — rebelled against God's spiritual universe 
and the spiritual laws which govern and regulate it — 
and became the Fallen Angel. This Fallen Angel violated 
God's spiritual laws which govern His spiritual uni- 
verse and partook of darkness rather than Light — 
death rather than Life. "And the seventy returned 

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again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are sub- 
ject unto us through thy name. And He said unto 
them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven" 
(Luke 10:17-18). "And the angels which kept not 
their first estate, but left their own habitation he hath 
reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the 
judgment of the great day" (Jude 6). "Be sober, be 
vigilant ; because your adversary the Devil as a roaring 
lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour" 
(Peter 1:8). "He that commiteth sin is of the devil for 
the devil sinneth from the beginning, for this purpose 
the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy 
the works of the devil" (John 1 :3, 8) . "Hereafter I 
will not talk much with you: for the Prince of this 
world cometh, and hath nothing in me" (John 14 :30) . 
"For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast 
them down to hell and delivered them into chains of 
darkness, to be reserved unto judgment: and spared 
not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a 
preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon 
the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of 
Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them 
with an overthrow, making them an example unto 
those that after should live ungodly; and delivered 
just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the 
wicked : for that righteous man dwelleth among them, 
in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from 
day to day with their unlawful deeds ; the Lord know- 
eth how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to 
reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be pun- 
ished" (2 Peter 2:4-9). 

Here we clearly see by the authority of revelation 
that before the material creation, all was Spirit, Light 
and Life and that there were spiritual beings who in- 
habited God's spiritual universe and enjoyed their spir- 



166 The Truth About the Bible, 

itual state in perfect harmony with the laws of Light 
and Life of God's spiritual nature and His spiritual 
universe. That some of these spiritual beings rebelled 
against God's spiritual universe and its spiritual laws 
and His spiritual nature — rebelled against spiritual 
Light, spiritual Life and Spirit, which is God. Having 
rebelled against Light they partook of darkness, having 
rebelled against Life they partook of death, and having 
rebelled against Spirit, which is God; they partook of 
matter and flesh. In the very nature of things there 
can be no light without the opposite darkness, no life 
without the opposite death, no Spirit without the op- 
posite nature which is manifested in matter and flesh, 
no good without the opposite evil. 

God is Good, God is Light, Life, and Spirit and all 
that existed in His spiritual nature, mind, and universe 
had the attributes of Good, Light, Life and Spirit. But 
when the spiritual beings which were a part of His 
spiritual universe rebelled against His universe its 
laws and its spiritual nature they partook of the op- 
posite nature and became the opposite in their at- 
tributes to God, His spiritual laws and spiritual uni- 
verse. They partook of the nature of darkness, evil 
and death, which is manifested in the material creation 
and the fleshly man. 

Revelation teaches us that the Chief of the spirit- 
ual beings who rebelled against God, God's spiritual 
laws and God's spiritual universe is the Devil. 

The power of the fallen spirits, their nature and 
attributes which is contrary to God and to God's spir- 
itual universe is manifested and represented in the 
material man. 

The spiritual man was created in God's image and 
in accordance and in harmony with God's spiritual 
nature, His spiritual laws and His spiritual universe. 



The Origin of Evil and Sin. 167 

The material man in his fleshly nature, who is con- 
ceived in passion and born of woman partakes of the 
nature of the fallen spirits, the Chief of whom, revela- 
tion tells us, was the Devil, who are out of harmony with 
God's spiritual nature — His spiritual laws and spir- 
itual universe — and are in a state of rebellion against 
God. "In the day that God created man in the likeness 
of God made He him ; male and female created He them ; 
and blessed them and called their name Adam in the 
day when they were created. And Adam lived an hun- 
dred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own like- 
ness, after his image, and called his name Seth." Gene- 
sis 5:1-3 verses. We observe here "In the day that 
God created man," "He created him in His likeness." 
This was the spiritual man whom God created of spirit 
and is a part of Universal Spiritual Life, into a per- 
sonal spiritual being. We further observe "That Adam 
begat a son in his own likeness and after his image"; 
Adam here represents the physical and material man 
and the son that "He begat in his own image and like- 
ness" — represents the fleshly man who is anti-spiritual 
and contrary to the spiritual man that God created and 
is mortal and must die. This Adam man is the mate- 
rial man "And the son he begat in his own likeness 
and image" partakes of the nature of the fallen angels 
who rebelled against God and God's spiritual universe. 
"This Adam man" represents the nature and the at- 
tributes in the flesh of the Devil and the fallen angels. 
"The Adam man" with his fleshly nature and carnal 
mind is the personification of the Devil and the fallen 
angels and is in rebellion against God and God's laws 
and God's spiritual universe. 

The means by which this "Adam man" is con- 
ceived and brought into existence is anti-spiritual and 
contrary to God's spiritual universe and His spiritual 



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laws." "Now the Serpent was more subtle than any 
beast of the field which the Lord God had made. "And 
he said unto the woman, yea, hath God said, ye shall 
eat of every tree of the Garden ? And the woman said 
unto the Serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the trees 
of the garden ; but of the fruit of the tree which is in 
the midst of the Garden, God hath said, ye shall not 
eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die." Genesis 
3:1-3. Of course, the serpent here represents the 
woman's fleshly passion and "the tree," the gratifica- 
tion of passion, by which the fleshly man is propa- 
gated, which is anti-spiritual and is spiritual death. 
"And the serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not 
surely die." Genesis 2 :4. Of course, the serpent here 
represents the passion of the woman by which the 
physical man is propagated, overcoming the spiritual 
woman. 

"And the Lord God said unto the Serpent, Because 
thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, 
and above every beast of the field ; upon thy belly shalt 
thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy 
life." Genesis 3:14. Here God pronounces His judg- 
ment and declares His wrath against the Serpent, 
which represents the passion of the woman, which 
overcame the spiritual nature of the woman and caused 
the conception and propagation of the physical man. 
The physical man being anti-spiritual in his nature, 
the means whereby he is conceived being contrary to 
God's spiritual laws and God's spiritual universe, is 
in rebellion against God and spiritual things. Lust 
and sexual passion being the means of propagating the 
physical man and the physical man being anti-spiritual 
and contrary to the man that God made in His own 
image, the means whereby he is conceived is contrary 



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to God's spiritual nature, God's spiritual laws and 
God's spiritual universe. 

From the day of the first man, Adam, who repre- 
sents the first physical and material man and the day 
of the first woman, God's spiritual creatures whom he 
made in His image have realized that they were in 
bondage to some power which was anti-spiritual and 
contrary to their spiritual natures and to God and to 
all things spiritual and have been crying out and weep- 
ing to be delivered from this state of bondage which 
is the fleshly man conceived in lust and passion, who 
represents the state of the Devil and the fallen angels 
who are in rebellion against God — God's spiritual laws 
and God's spiritual universe. Hence, the fleshly man 
with his carnal mind and physical senses cannot know 
and understand God, and it is only the spiritual 
man who can worship, appreciate, understand and live 
in harmony with God. 

For this cause, Christ, who was entirely spiritual, 
had to be conceived without sexual passion. But the 
physical man, with his carnal and material mind, made 
theology to appeal to and to please the physical senses 
of the physical man, and cannot understand this spir- 
itual truth. 

"And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your fore- 
skin; and it shall be covenant betwixt me and you. 
And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised 
among you, every man child in your generations, he 
that is born in thy house, bought with money of any 
stranger , which is not thy seed ; he that is born in thy 
house, and he that is bought with thy money, must 
needs be circumcised; and my covenant shall be in 
your flesh for an everlasting covenant. And the un- 
circumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is 
not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his 



170 The Truth About the Bible. 

people; he hath broken my covenant." Genesis 17: 
11-14. 

Here God was speaking to Abraham — and Abra- 
ham was the Father of the House of Israel and Israel 
represents the spiritual man whom God created in His 
own image. "I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and 
Jacob." That is, "I am the God of the spiritual man 
whom I created in my own image." Circumcision here 
not only represents a sanitary law, but a spiritual Law ; 
representing the shedding of blood of the generative 
organs, whereby the physical man — "the Adam man" 
is propagated. And the shedding of blood represents 
death; that is, circumcision here represents the death 
of "the Adam man" and the loss of his power over the 
spiritual man whom God created in His own image. 

This spiritual man is a different creation from the 
physical man and knows not the laws of the physical 
man nor his anti-spiritual nature. Israel, the spirit- 
ual man whom God made in His own image, is abso- 
lutely spiritual; and the fleshly man conceived by 
woman through passion partakes of the nature of the 
fallen angels and is absolutely anti-spiritual. "And 
when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, 
and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be 
desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, 
and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, 
and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were 
opened, and they knew that they were naked ; and they 
sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves 
aprons." Genesis 3:6, 7. Here we have the woman 
who is represented as the first woman of creation, the 
physical woman, yielding to sexual passion and arous- 
ing the lust of her husband until they gratified their 
sexual lust and their spiritual eyes were opened and 
they knew the difference between the law of the Spirit 



The Origin of Evil and Sin. 171 

and the law of the flesh ; the difference between the at- 
tributes of God and the attributes of the Devil who had 
rebelled against God's spiritual kingdom and whose 
anti-spiritual nature is represented in the law of the 
flesh. And this first woman here represented and the 
first man were man and wife. The fact that they had 
mated as the opposite sexes of the physical creation, 
did not make the gratification of their lust spiritual. 
The fleshly creation represents the nature of the Fallen 
Angels who rebelled against God's spiritual kingdom, 
and the gratification of the lust of the flesh 
whereby the physical man is propagated, is contrary 
to the laws of God's spiritual kingdom. The fleshly 
man is of the nature of the Fallen Angels ; the spiritual 
man is of the nature of God's spiritual kingdom. 

"For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, mur- 
ders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, 
blasphemies." Matt. 15:19. "Out of the heart," of 
course, here represents the physical man who is gov- 
erned according to the anti-spiritual laws of the Fallen 
Angel. "Wherefor, as by one man sin entered into 
the world, and death by sin ; and so death passed upon 
all men, for that all have sinned." Romans 5 :12. Here 
the one man referred to, of course, represents the first 
"Adam man" who was the first material man, and 
represented the anti-spiritual nature of the Devil and 
the Fallen Angels ; and in his nature was governed by 
the law of lust; and when he yielded to sexual pas- 
sion, he violated the spiritual law of God's spiritual 
kingdom and physical death by reason of the violation 
of this spiritual law was decreed to all the generations 
of men of the material creation as they are begotten 
by the law of lust and passion. 

"They answered and said unto him, Abraham is 
our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abra- 



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ham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. 
But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you 
the truth, which I have heard of God; this did not 
Abraham, Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said 
they to him, we be not born of fornication; we have 
one Father, even God. Jesus said unto them, If God 
were your Father, ye would love me; for I proceeded 
forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, 
but he sent me. Why do ye not understand my speech ? 
Even because ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of your 
do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode 
father, the Devil, and the lusts of your father ye will 
not in truth, because there is no truth in him. When 
he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own ; for he is a 
liar, and the father of it." John 8 : 39-44. Here Christ 
represents the children of Abraham as God's spiritual 
children. Abraham represents the spiritual man 
whom God created in His own image. The Master, 
after comparing the children of God — God's spiritual 
creatures— to the children of Abraham, He compares 
the physical man, the offspring of Adam, the first 
material man, who was created by lust, as the son of 
the devil; the devil here representing the fallen angels 
who rebelled against God and God's spiritual kingdom. 
"Ye are of your father the devil and the lusts of your 
father ye will do. He was a murderer from the begin- 
ning and abode not in truth because there is no truth 
in him. When he speaketh a lie he speaketh of his 
own; for he is a liar and the father of it." John 8:44. 
Here the Master compares and represents the state 
of the fallen angel to be at enmity with God's 
spiritual kingdom, "a murderer from the beginning" 
— and that he rebelled against the truth of God's spir- 
itual kingdom and that when he speaketh he speaketh 
a lie and that he speaketh his own for he is a liar and 



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the father of liars; and that the physical man which 
is created by the law of lust is his child and offspring 
and partakes of his nature and is in rebellion against 
God and God's spiritual kingdom. 

This father of liars, who is a fallen spirit, and is 
in rebellion against God's spiritual kingdom, is repre- 
sented in the power of the flesh, and the material man ; 
and his evil personality is personified in the essence of 
lust by which the physical man is conceived and gen- 
erated. He is ever present in the power of the flesh 
and the material man contending with the spiritual 
man and at war with the spiritual man whom God 
created in His own image. "Now there was a day 
when the sons of God came to present themselves be- 
fore the Lord, and Satan came also among them. And 
the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then 
Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and 
fro in the earth and walking up and down in it. And 
the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my 
Servant, Job, that there is none like him in the earth, 
a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God 
and escheweth evil? Then Satan answered the Lord, 
and said, Doth Job fear God for naught? Hast thou 
not made a hedge about him, and about his house, and 
about all that he hath on every side? Thou hast 
blessed the works of his hands, and his substance is 
increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, 
and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to 
thy face. And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, all 
that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put 
not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the 
presence of the Lord." Job 1:6-12. Here we 
have the narrative of Job, the spiritual man made in 
God's image, and Job, the fleshly man, representing 
the power of the devij. The affliction of Job, the 



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physical man, represents the power of the evil spirit 
— the fallen angel — called "the Devil," as represented 
in the flesh of the physical man. All the punishment 
afflicted upon Job, the physical man, his sufferings 
and torture, represents the war between the fleshly 
man and the spiritual man. The fleshly man repre- 
sents the power of the fallen angels who rebelled 
against God's spiritual kingdom, and the fleshly man 
is constantly at war with the spiritual man who was 
made in God's image. "And the Lord said unto Satan, 
Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon 
himself put not forth thine hand," Job 1:12. Here 
we see the Lord permitted the power of the 
devil to rule the fleshly man and to torture him with 
pain and suffering, but not to touch or injure the 
spiritual man who was made in God's image. The 
story of Job is a story of the war between the spirit- 
ual man and the fleshly man, the story of the war 
between the flesh and the spirit ; the story of the war 
between the fallen angels who rebelled against God's 
kingdom and God, The Personal Universal Spirit. 
"As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have 
I hated." Romans 9:13. Here Jacob represents the 
spiritual man and Esau the fleshly man. Jacob is 
of the House of Israel and the House of Israel repre- 
sents Gods' spiritual children whom He created in His 
own image. Esau represents the fleshly man who 
is conceived by the power of lust and represents and 
is the personification of the power of the fallen an- 
gels who rebelled against God's spiritual kingdom. 

And this is the predestination which the theo- 
logians with their physical and carnal minds have 
been disputing over through ages. "The elect" are 
God's spiritual children created in His image and 
the "Non-elect" are the fleshly creatures conceived 



The Origin of Evil and Sin. 175 

in lust and born of woman and who represent the 
power of the fallen angels. From the foundation of 
the world, the Scriptures teach us that God knew His 
own and ordained them to eternal life. His own are 
His spiritual children created in His own image. The 
Scriptures also teach us that before the foundation of 
the world he knew that man would fall; that is, be- 
fore God created the material universe; He knew the 
spiritual man would yield to the power of the lust — 
and the physical man would be conceived and born 
of woman. The fallen angels rebelled against God's 
spiritual kingdom before the material universe was 
created and the material creation and the fleshly man 
represents the power of the rebellion of the fallen 
angels who rebelled against God's spiritual kingdom, 
angels, who rebelled against God's spiritual kingdom. 
Intelligence, knew the fleshly man before the mate- 
rial creation, and his power and how he would war 
against the spiritual man made in God's image. "The 
elect" are God's spiritual children, created in His own 
image, who were, before the foundation of the world, 
predestinated and fore-ordained to eternal life ac- 
cording to the power and degree that they take into 
their spiritual consciousness, the spiritual life and 
power of the Christ, who is in perfect harmony 
with God's spiritual kingdom and perfect spiritual 
life. The condemned, before the foundation of the 
world, were the children of the flesh who are con- 
ceived in lust and who cannot know God and God's 
spiritual kingdom and must die and pass away when 
the material creation is no more. As the spiritual 
man taketh the power and nature of this fleshly man 
into his spiritual consciousness — he partaketh of hell 
and death. This is election — this is predestination. 
"And the seventy returned again with joy, say- 



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ing Lord, even the devils, are subject unto us through 
thy name. And he said unto them: I beheld Satan 
as lightning fall from heaven." Luke 1:7 to 8:2. 
Here we see the Apostles and the Fathers of the Early- 
Church cast out devils in the name of the Christ. 
That is, they were in such perfect harmony with God's 
spiritual kingdom and had such perfect control over 
the flesh that they healed and cured the lame and the 
sick — healed the fleshly man who represents the 
power of Satan, who is rebellion against God. 

"As they went out, behold, they brought to him 
a dumb man possessed with the devil — and when the 
devil was cast out and the dumb spake; and the mul- 
titude marveled, saying it was never so seen in 
Israel." Matt. 9:32, 33. Here we see the Master 
cured the infirmities of the flesh — the sickness of 
the physical man — which sickness and infirmities is 
but the power of the evil of the angels that rebelled 
against Heaven. Christ, the Apostles, and the 
Fathers of the Early Church went about healing the 
sick "and casting out devils" — the casting out of 
devils, of course, represents the power of the spiritual 
man over the physical man — the power of good over 
evil — the power of God over the fallen angels who 
rebelled against His kingdom. 

God is Good, God is Perfect, God is Love, God 
is Light and God is Life. The spiritual creatures 
who were members of His spiritual kingdom and re- 
belled against God and His spiritual universe — and 
were cast out, of course, became the opposite of all of 
that which God is — darkness, evil, sickness and 
death — and the power of these fallen angels is repre- 
sented in the physical man conceived in passion and 

lust. 

The human family knows there is something 



The Origin of Evil and Sin. Ill 

wrong; that there is a war going on within the hu- 
man breast. The most benighted heathen and pagan 
realizes that the physical man is at war with some- 
thing better within him — is at war with his spiritual 
nature — with the spiritual man made in God's image, 
hence he cuts and punishes the physical man. He 
offers up bloody sacrifices; he wants to do something 
to appease the wrath that is raging within him be- 
tween the spiritual and the physical man. The en- 
lightened and civilized pagan worships his gods and 
denies the physical man in an effort to appease and 
satisfy the wrath of the spiritual man who is con- 
tending against the evil of the physical man. The 
so-called orthodox Christian, with his man-made the- 
ology, preaches an atonement to the physical senses 
of the material man in an effort to satisfy the de- 
mands of the spiritual man and to release the spiritual 
man from bondage to the physical man. Christen- 
dom, with its man-made theology misconceiving the 
physical man for the spiritual man, has deified the 
physical man, made his conception and birth spir- 
itual and divine and is preaching that the physical 
is holy and the child of God and will be saved 
by the power of The Atonement. Thus Christendom 
has confused the spiritual birth with the physical 
birth, the spiritual man with the physical man and has 
made the power of the devil the kingdom of heaven. 
All of the human race realize that there is some- 
thing wrong. The children of men weep and wail 
with tears, first cursing like demons of hell, and 
then praying like angels of heaven. In this confused 
state they cannot differentiate between the spiritual 
and the material — between heaven and hell — God and 
the Devil. All of this confusion which has caused the 
human race so many tears and so much weeping arose 



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out of and had its origin in confounding and confus- 
ing the spiritual birth with the natural birth — the 
spiritual man and the natural man. 

The spiritual man God created in His own image 
and likeness, and he is a child of God and a part of 
God's spiritual universe — the physical man is con- 
ceived in lust and passion and in his fleshly nature 
represents the power of the devil and the fallen angels 
who rebelled against God and God's spiritual king- 
dom. 

God is Mind, God is Spirit, and the creatures 
whom he created in his spiritual kingdom were spir- 
itual creatures, and the fallen angels who rebelled 
against God's spiritual kingdom were spiritual crea- 
tures; but when they rebelled their spiritual natures 
became evil, manifested through evil thoughts and 
perverted mind in the flesh. It is these evil thoughts 
which corrupt and disease the physical man — and it 
was the evil thoughts which represented the spirits of 
the fallen angels that corrupted the flesh of the physi- 
cal man and that Christ cast out as devils. The physi- 
cal man is filled with iniquity, which is the perverted 
mind and anti-spiritual nature of the fallen angels 
— the carnal mind, lust and passion of the physical 
man. 

"The heart is deceitful above all things, and 
desperately wicked; who can know it?" Jeremiah 
17:9. "The heart" here referred to represents the 
life principle of the physical man — the sinful nature 
of his carnal mind and the law of lust which is the 
power of the devil and the fallen angels who rebelled 
against God. It was these evil thoughts — this carnal 
mind — this lustful nature — this Satanic power that 
Christ cast out as devils and restored the physical 
man to health and healed his sickness and disease. 



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This physical man, charged with the carnal mind 
and the lustful nature of Satanic majesty, which is 
anti-spiritual, is mortal; God is Life and God is Im- 
mortal. And this physical man, which is the prod- 
uct of the perverted and anti-spiritual mind of the 
spirits who rebelled against God's spiritual kingdom, 
partakes of sin and death. 

"Man that is born of woman, is of a few days 
and full of trouble." Here the man spoken of 
"born of woman," of course, represents the Adam 
man — full of sin controlled by the carnal mind and 
decreed to die. "But man dieth, and wasteth away; 
yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?" 
Job. 14:10. "But his flesh upon him shall have 
pain, and his soul within him shall mourn." Job 
14:22. Here we see the physical man is represented 
as death and the spiritual man, which represents 
life, shall mourn in his bondage to the physical 
man. The children of men through all generations 
— the spiritual children of God, made in God's image 
— have been crying, weeping and mourning and pray- 
ing to be delivered from the bondage of the power 
of the angels who rebelled against God's kingdom; 
which power is represented in the carnal mind and 
the lust of the physical man. The spiritual child of 
God made in God's image has yielded to the law of 
lust today and wept in tears of bitterness and sor- 
row tomorrow, and, realizing that there was some- 
thing wrong and that there was a sinful power eat- 
ing away his spiritual life, was unable to explain to 
his own conscience what the power of sin was, which 
was destroying his spiritual life; and the theologians 
with their man-made theology — the product of the 
carnal mind, which made the physical birth spiritual 



180 The Truth About the Bible, 

— have been unable to enlighten the conscience of 
God's spiritual children. 

"Man is like vanity — his days are as a shadow 
that passeth away." Psalm 144:4. "Then shall 
the dust return to earth as it was; and the spirit 
shall return unto God who gave it." Ecclesiastics 
12:7. "For when they shall rise from the dead, they 
neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are 
as the angels which are in heaven." Mark 12:25. 
Here we see that the Scriptures clearly differen- 
tiate between the physical man and the spiritual man ; 
and that the physical man is mortal and sinful and 
within him reigns and rules the carnal mind and the 
law of lust which represents the perverted state of 
the angels who rebelled against God's kingdom, and 
that the spiritual man is God's child made in God's 
image and is immortal and can never die. The Scrip- 
tures here teach that the spiritual man neither mar- 
ries nor is given in marriage, but is as the angels of 
heaven; but that it is the physical man who is con- 
trolled by the law of the carnal mind and lust that 
marries and is given in marriage and his carnal mind 
being of the devil he is filled with disease, sickness, 
tortured with pain and sufferings, and finally death. 
"For he is the child of the father of liars." Christ 
declared that Spirit was Life and that Spirit was 
i»xmd and Love. 

"Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord 
thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with 
all thy mind." Matt. 22:27. Here the Master de- 
clared that kingdom of God to be one of Love 
and of Mind and Spirit and Life. Satan's 
kingdom is the opposite— is hatred, malice, mat- 
ter, sickness and death. "Oh, wretched man that 
I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this 



The Origin of Evil and Sin. 181 

death." Romans 8:24. Here Paul refers to the 
body of the physical man as death and cries out from 
the depths of his soul — "Oh, wretched man that I am. 
Who shall deliver me from the body of this death." 

God's spiritual children, made in His image, have 
been crying out from the day the first man and the 
first woman yielded to the law of lust, "Oh, wretched 
creatures we are, bound in chains and shackles to the 
power of the carnal mind and lust; ruled and gov- 
erned by the dominion of the Devil; who shall de- 
liver us from this state of bondage of lust and sin into 
the glorious dominion of God's spiritual kingdom of 
freedom?" Through the ages the spiritual man, God's 
child, had seen with a vision divine the coming of the 
Christ who would deliver all of God's spiritual chil- 
dren, who believe in Him, back into the glorious king- 
dom of God's image and God's spiritual kingdom. 

"The Adam man" had his origin when God's 
spiritual creatures rebelled against God a)ad God's 
spiritual kingdom. This was the origin and the be- 
ginning of sin. This was the origin and the begin- 
ning of suffering and death in the physical man. God 
is Good, God is Pure, God is Perfect, God is Light, 
God is Love, God is Life, and when His spiritual crea- 
tures rebelled against His spiritual kingdom they be- 
came rebels against all of His laws of light, love and 
life, and "the Adam man" and the material creation, 
which represents their nature and their laws of 
hatred, sickness, darkness and death, is mortal and 
in rebellion against God and His kingdom. He is the 
product of the carnal mind and lust and the fallen an- 
gels. Oh, when will men who claim to be the teachers of 
God's children in spiritual things understand this 
truth and lead God's children, made in His image, 
back into God's spiritual kingdom, into the land of 



182 The Truth About the Bible. 

light, love, truth and life and out of Satan's dominion 
of sin, sickness and death — away and out of the king- 
dom of the carnal mind and the law of lust ruled and 
controlled by the devil, the fleshly man, and his angels 
who rebelled against God and God's kingdom — against 
Spirit, Light and Life? 



CHAPTER XV. 

Physical Disease, Sickness and Death. 

The physical man is created by the law of lust; 
and the law of lust is anti-spiritual and contrary to 
life. Lust is physical diseases, sickness and death. 
The physical man is non-spiritual and has not the ele- 
ments of life in him; naturally he partakes of disease, 
sickness and death. He is conceived in lust and death. 
"So I gave them up unto their own heart's lust; and 
they walked in their own counsels." Psalm 81:12. 
"And they that are Christ's crucified the flesh 
withthe affections and lusts." Gal. 5 :24. "For all that 
is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of 
the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but 
is of the world. And the world passeth away and 
the lust thereof; but he that doeth the will of God 
abideth forever." John 2:16, 17. The Scripture 
represents lust as the power of the flesh and anti- 
spiritual. It is the manifestation of the minds of 
the fallen angels who rebelled against God's Kingdom 
in the fleshly man. And as the Spirit is life, the 
power of lust which is anti-spiritual is disease, sick- 
ness and death. All the infirmities, diseases and 
sickness and suffering of the physical man had their 
origin in the power of lust by which he is conceived. 
Where all is Spirit — all is life. Where all is lust — all 

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184 The Truth About the Bible. 

is death. Where Spirit reigneth there is life. Where 
lust reigneth there is death. The human family, the 
physical man yielding to the law of lust from genera- 
tion to generation, has bequeathed physical weakness, 
sickness and disease to the children of men — to the 
physical man. All of the diseases, sickness and suf- 
fering of the human family are due to the law of lust, 
and the power of lust is the mental state of fallen 
angels who are out of harmony with God's spiritual 
kingdom. 

"In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, 
till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast 
thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust thou 
shalt return." Genesis 3:19. "Wherefore, as by one 
man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; 
and so death passed upon all men, for that all have 
sinned." Romans 5:12. "And Job spake and said, 
Let the day perish wherein I was born and the night 
in which it was said there is a man child conceived." 
Job 3:2, 3. "What man is he that liveth and shall 
not see death." Psalm 39:48. "As he came forth of 
his mother's womb naked, shall he return to and go 
as he came and shall take nothing of his labor which 
he may carry away in his hand." Ecclesiastics 5:15. 
"And as it is appointed unto men once to die, 
but after this the judgment." Hebrews 9:27. The 
Scriptures here clearly teach us that the physical 
man is conceived in lust and that the law of lust rep- 
resents death. The law of lust is a mental state, it is 
anti-spiritual; it is the power of the evil-spirit, or 
the devil, whom Christ cast out. The physical con- 
ception and birth is the power of the mental state of 
the angels who rebelled against God's Kingdom. The 
physical man is conceived by the power and the laws 
which are contrary to God's spiritual kingdom, and 



Physical Disease, Sickness and Death. 185 

as God is life, and the physical man must be conceived 
by the power of death. There is no harmony between 
the physical and the spiritual man; they canont be 
reconciled — there is no harmony between death and 
life; they are ever in conflict with each other. God is 
greater than the fallen angels — Good is greater than 
evil — Spirit is greater than matter — Life is greater 
than death — so the spiritual man must live — and the 
physical who is conceived in lust must die. 

By yielding to the law of lust — the mental state 
of the fallen angels — the physical man has produced 
disease, sickness and suffering in the flesh, and gen- 
eration from generation has inherited the diseases and 
physical weakness caused by the fathers yielding to 
the law of lust and the mental state of the power of 
the flesh. All physical life has its origin in the law 
of lust and sexual passion, and likewise all physical 
death has the same origin because the power that 
produces the physical life is the essence of death and 
cannot produce life, but only death. 

The physical weakness of the human family is 
due to violating spiritual laws and yielding to the law 
of lust and passion. When the physical man yields 
to the law of lust he gives up his physical life. When 
he reaches the mental state wherein the power of lust 
controls him he is under the influence mentally of all 
that which is anti-spiritual, and when he yields physi- 
cally to his lustful nature he surrenders part of the 
physical life and becomes weaker physically and 
poorer spiritually. It is the power of the law of lust 
which has made the human family physical weaklings, 
tortured with suffering and pain; and from the day 
of Adam, the first physical man who yielded to pas- 
sion and lust, parents have handed down to their chil- 



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dren physical weakness, disease, and sickness, as a 
result of indulging the law of lust and passion. 

The law of lust and the power of passion should 
only be yielded to for the purpose of propagating the 
race, and even then under the most and best spiritual 
conditions possible, and when lust and passion are 
gratified in this mental state it is anti-spiritual, and 
partakes of the nature of death. There can be no 
Life, no Light and no Spirit in gratifying the law of 
lust and passion whereby the physical man is con- 
ceived. 

The carnal mind is of the spiritual nature of the 
angels who rebelled against God's Kingdom, and 
therefore is in rebellion against God. It is produced 
by the mental and spiritual nature of the angels who 
rebelled against God — the lust of the flesh and physi- 
cal conception. Hence the lust of the flesh — the physi- 
cal man and the carnal mind — is in the same mental 
and spiritual state of the fallen angels who kept not 
their first spiritual state with God and His spiritual 
kingdom; hence the physical man — the lust of the 
flesh, and the carnal mind — is in rebellion against 
God and cannot know spiritual things nor God's spir- 
itual nature. Physical sickness, disease and death, 
therefore, have their origin in a mental spiritual state. 
They represent the mental and spiritual state of the 
fallen angels. This mental and spiritual state is in 
rebellion against God and knows only lust, crimes, dis- 
eases, physical and selfish power, vanity — all which 
are a spiritual and mental state of the fallen angels 
and result in physical sickness, disease and death. 

God's nature is the opposite of this mental and 
spiritual state of the fallen angels who rebelled 
against God and whose power is represented in the 
carnal mind and the lust of the flesh; hence, Christ 



Physical Disease, Sickness and Death. 187 

and His Apostles restored physical health and life by 
spiritual power. "Then He called His twelve disciples 
together, and gave them power and authority over all 
devils, and to cure diseases. And he sent them to 
preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick." 
Luke 9:1, 2. Here, the Master taught that spiritual 
life of the nature of the Father was not only spiritual 
life, but physical life. "The devils" here mentioned 
were the mental states and conditions of the children 
of the flesh and the carnal mind — the spiritual nature 
of the fallen angels who rebelled against God's spir- 
itual kingdom and whose spiritual state and mental 
condition is spiritual and physical sickness and death. 
"And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God and 
to heal the sick." That is, to teach men the spiritual 
and mental nature of God, which is life, and by so 
doing they cast out devils; the devils cast out were 
thoughts and mental conditions of the nature of the 
fallen angels who are in rebellion against God and 
God's laws and his spiritual kingdom. 

"And it came to pass, that the father of Publius 
lay sick of a fever and bloody flux ; to whom Paul en- 
tered in and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and 
healed him." Acts 28:8. "Then Peter said, Silver 
and gold have I none; but such as I have I give thee; 
in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and 
walk, and he took him by the right hand and lifted 
him up; and immediately his feet and ankle bones 
received strength. And he, leaping up, stood, and 
walked, and entered with them into the temple, walk- 
ing and leaping, and praising God." Acts 3:6-8. 
"And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, 
which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of 
the palsy; and Peter said unto him, Aeneas, Jesus 



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Christ maketh thee whole; arise, and make thy bed. 
And he arose immediately." Acts 9:33, 24. "And 
the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord 
shall raise him up; and if he hath committed sins, 
they shall be forgiven him." James 5:15. Here we 
see that disease and sickness have their origin in a 
spiritual and mental state. That it is a spiritual and 
mental condition of the carnal mind and flesh, which 
is the spiritual state of the fallen angels, that pro- 
duces physical sickness and finally death. And that 
by spiritual power, a mental state which is in har- 
mony with God's nature, you can cast out the evil 
thoughts and the lustful nature which partake of the 
spiritual nature of the fallen angels, and not only re- 
store spiritual life, but physical health. This is what 
Christ and the Apostles did. It was by this spiritual 
state and power, which excluded the mental and spir- 
itual nature of the fallen angels, who are in rebellion 
against God, that they healed the sick, restored sight 
to the blind, made the lame walk, the deaf to hear, 
and raised the dead. When the Church lost its spir- 
itual power, and no longer remained in harmony with 
God's spiritual laws, and spiritual nature, and began 
to worship God through the physical senses and by 
the carnal mind, it lost its spiritual power. The El* 
ders and Disciples could no longer heal the sick, re- 
store sight to the blind and make the deaf hear, be- 
cause their minds were in the mental and spiritual 
state of the spiritual nature of the fallen angels who 
are in rebellion against God. They could not cast out 
devils, for their own mental and spiritual natures 
were of the same spiritual nature as the devil — the 
spiritual nature of the fallen angels. This mental 
nature and physical man which is of the spiritual 

nature of the fallen angels, is conceived in lust and 



Physical Disease, Sickness and Death. 189 

fleshly passion and when the Church spiritualized lust 
and sexual passion and the physical birth, the Dis- 
ciples partook of the mental and spiritual nature o± 
the lust of the flesh and the carnal mind, and the 
Church and those who called themselves Christians 
lost their spiritual power and the Church became a 
fleshly institution instead of a spiritual institution. 

But Christ banished this mental state and spir- 
itual nature of the fallen angels, who are in rebellion 
against God and His kingdom, by triumphing over 
every law of the flesh and lust. When He cast out 
devils — He simply restored the children of God to 
their natural spiritual state and in perfect harmony 
with God's spiritual law and God's spiritual nature. 
He did not leave one element of the mental and spir- 
itual nature in the minds of God's children which 
partook of the spiritual nature of the fallen angels. 

1 'Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead 
dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over 
him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once; but 
in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise reckon 
ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive 
unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not 
sin, therefore, reign in your mortal body, that ye 
should obey it in the lusts thereof." Romans 6:9-12. 
"Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of 
flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part 
of the same ; that through death he might destroy him 
that had the power of death, that is, the devil." He- 
brews 2:14, 15. "I am he that liveth, and was dead; 
and, behold, I am alive forever more. Amen. And 
have the keys of hell and of death." Revelations 1: 
18. Here we see that the Scriptures represent the 
devil to be the mental and spiritual state of the angels 
who kept not their first state in God's spiritual king- 



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dom, but rebelled against God and His kingdom; and 
that their spiritual and mental state and nature is 
represented in the nature and the power of sexual 
passion, lust and the carnal mind of the physical man ; 
and that is this nature and power which produces 
diseases, sickness and death in the physical man. That 
sin is a spiritual and mental state — the spiritual na- 
ture of the fallen angels and in harmony with the 
lust of the flesh; and that it is this power which orig- 
inally and has during the generation of the physical 
man produced sickness, suffering, disease and physi- 
cal death in the material man. It was this fleshly 
power and lust which was crucified on the Cross. It 
was this mental and spiritual nature of the fallen an- 
gels, which produces sickness and disease in the ma- 
terial man, that Christ and the Apostles cast out as 
devils. If God's children made in His own image 
would remain in harmony with God's spir- 
itual nature, the spiritual nature of the fallen angels 
and lust of the flesh could not enter their mental state 
nor their spiritual consciousness and they could tri- 
umph over physical sickness and disease and the suf- 
fering and the pain of the material man. 

"I am he that liveth and was dead; behold, I am 
alive forevermore. Amen. I have the keys of hell 
and of death." Christ here declared that He was dead 
to the physical man, the lust of the flesh and the car- 
nal mind, and alive and in full fellowship with God's 
spiritual kingdom; that He had triumphed over the 
rebellious nature of the fallen angels, the carnal mind, 
the lust of the flesh and physical death and that He 
is alive spiritually forevermore. We as God's spir- 
itual creatures can partake of this spiritual nature 
and spiritual life of the Christ and thereby triumph 
over the lust of the flesh, the carnal mind and mental 



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and spiritual nature of the fallen angels who are in 
rebellion against God's kingdom, and in so doing, we 
can every moment be casting out devils from our own 
mental and spiritual natures. He has the keys of hell 
and of death, the power over the anti-spiritual nature 
of the fallen angels who rebelled against God's king- 
dom and whose rebellious and anti-spiritual nature is 
represented in the lust of the flesh and the carnal 
mind. He can forever lock the doors against this 
power of hell and death — the lust of the flesh and the 
carnal mind — and keep it from entering our spiritual 
consciousness if we will only enter into His spiritual 
life and light. As He liveth, we shall live, if we will 
partake of His spiritual nature. Life or death is a 
spiritual and mental state. 



CHAPTER XVI. 

Israel. 

The Jew as a race has a spiritual meaning. Their 
original name as a race was Israel, which means "the 
spiritual man and one who prevaileth with God." 
Israel means the spiritual man, who is opposite to the 
physical man in his mental and Spiritual nature. "And 
the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, 
behold, it is a stiff-necked people; now, therefore, let 
me alone, that my wrath may wax against them, and 
that I may consume them; and I will make thee a 
great nation. And Moses besought the Lord his God, 
and said, Lord, why doth thy wrath wax hot against 
thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the 
land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty 
hand? . . . Remember, Abraham, Isaac, and Is- 
rael, thy servants, to whom thou swearest by thine 
own self, and saith unto them, I will multiply your 
seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I 
have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they 
shall inherit it forever." Exodus 32:9-13. Here, God 
was provoked with the Children of Israel, who 
represented His spiritual children. They were wor- 
shiping idols just as God's children, his spiritual crea- 
tures yield to the power of the flesh and worship the 
god of flesh. The Children of Israel represent God's 

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spiritual children — the spiritual man — and their bond- 
age in Egypt and slavery to the Pharaohs represent 
the bondage of the spiritual man to the physical man 
and the slavery of the spiritual man whom God cre- 
ated in His image, bound to the lust of the flesh. God 
here was delivering the Children of Israel from bond- 
age to the Pharaohs of Egypt just as He delivers the 
spiritual man from bondage to the power of the flesh 
by the power of the Spirit, and yet the Children of 
Israel wanted to erect golden images and physical 
gods to worship through their physical senses just as 
the spiritual man yields daily to the power of the flesh 
and worships a physical god through the physical 
senses of the flesh. 

"For I will pass through the land of Egypt this 
night, and will smite all the first born in the land of 
Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods 
of Egypt I will execute judgment; I am the Lord." 
Exodus 12:12. Here the Pharaohs and the Egyptians 
represent the fleshly man with his carnal mind and 
lustful nature and they had their gods. The physical 
man has his gods of selfishness, lust, vanity, and greed 
and everything that the carnal mind desires, he serves 
and worships as his god ; and it is these gods that the 
God of Israel declared that He would destroy and de- 
manded of the Children of Israel as He always de- 
mands of His spiritual children that they worship not 
these gods of the flesh, but worship Him the God 
of Spirit. "For the Lord will pass through to smite 
the Egyptians; and when He seeth the blood upon 
the lintel, and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass 
over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to 
come in unto your houses to smite you. And ye shall 
observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy 
sons forever." Exodus 12:23, 24. Here the Children 



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of Israel were told to place blood on the two sides 
of the post as a sign that they were the Children of 
Israel. This was the institution of the passover, and 
wherever this blood was found, the Lord would leave 
the Children of Israel harmless. Here, the Lord prom- 
ised to pass over the houses of the Children of Israel 
in Egypt and to destroy the Egyptians and to let the 
Children of Israel go free. The Children of Israel 
here represent God's spiritual children made in His 
image — the spiritual man. The Egyptians represent 
the fleshly man with his lustful nature and carnal 
mind. The blood here represents the death of the 
physical man. Blood is the life of the physical man. 
The spiritual man knoweth not flesh and blood. The 
destruction here represents God's wrath against the 
fleshly man; and the passing over of the houses of 
the Children of Israel and leaving them harmless, rep- 
resents God's love and protection for His spiritual 
children whom He made in His image. 

"And God spake all these words, saying, I am the 
Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the 
land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou 
shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not 
make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of 
anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the 
earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth ; 
thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve 
them; for I the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, 
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children 
unto the third and fourth generation of them that 
hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them 
that love me, and keep my commandments." Exodus 
20:1-6. Here God had delivered the Children of 
Israel out of bondage and slavery to the Egyptians — 
just as He is delivering daily His spiritual children 



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whom He made in His image out of bondage and 
slavery to the fleshly man and his carnal mind and 
lustful nature. And He gave them these commandments 
that they should have no other gods before them 
— that is, they should not worship the gods of the 
flesh, but Him, the God and the Creator of Spirits 
just as He is commanding daily His spiritual children 
made in His image, not to worship the gods of the 
flesh, selfishness, vanity, lust and greed, all of which 
represent the spiritual and mental nature of the fallen 
angels who are in rebellion against God, but to ex- 
clude these thoughts from their spiritual conscious- 
ness and to worship Him the God of Spirits. 

Yet the Children of Israel would worship images 
and idols, gods of the physical senses, for which God 
punished them. He demanded of them as His spirit- 
ual children just as He demands of every spiritual 
child whom He created in His own image that He be 
worshiped as the God of Spirit and not the god of the 
flesh. 

The Passover was symbolic in its nature — it rep- 
resented the shedding of blood upon the Cross when 
the Christ would be crucified — that is, when the 
fleshly man should be crucified and lose his power 
over the spiritual man; and as God passed over the 
Children of Israel and their houses, wherever the 
blood was placed upon the posts indicating the death 
of the physical man, so he passes over His spiritual 
children without harm wherever the physical man 
has been crucified and lost his power over the spir- 
itual man. It is the physical man that is at enmity 
with God and whom God punishes and will destroy. 
The spiritual man whom He made in His own image 
He loves and will protect and pass over without in- 
jury when the spiritual man has denied the physical 



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man and crucifies the physical man. "And the Lord 
said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into 
Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before 
Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand; but I will 
harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go. 
And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus sayeth the 
Lord, Israel is my son, even my first born." Exodus 
4:21, 22. Here the Pharaohs and the Egyptians repre- 
sent the fleshly man, who, with his carnal mind, is at 
enmity with God and has no fellowship with Israel the 
spiritual man, that is, the man whom He made in His 
own spiritual image — and all of His spiritual creatures 
whom He made in His image. The flesh is ever at war 
with the Spirit and the fleshly man is ever trying to en- 
slave the spiritual man, but God will deliver His spir- 
itual children from bondage to the fleshly man if they 
will only crucify the lust of the flesh. For forty years 
the Children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: 
representing the spiritual man lost spiritually and 
wandering in the wilderness of the power of the flesh, 
yet God guided them in all of their wanderings and 
fed them on the manna of heaven. So He will guide 
His spiritual children wandering in the wilderness of 
the flesh, and feed them spiritually on the manna of 
the Spirit, if His spiritual children will only crucify 
the lust of the flesh and live in harmony with God's 
spiritual laws. 

"This is he, that was in the church in the wil- 
derness with the angel which spake to him in Mt. 
Sina, and with our fathers; who received the lively 
oracles to give unto us." Acts 7:38. Here we see 
that the God of Abraham — the God of Isaac — and the 
God of all spiritual creation was with His spiritual 
children in the wilderness and that His Church is an 



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invisible spiritual institution — the spiritual conscius- 
ness and spiritual light and life of His spiritual crea- 
tures. The Church — the spiritual life of God's spir- 
itual children — existed before the material creation. 
For in God was light and life from all eternity and 
His spiritual children are made in His image. The 
physical institution, which man calls church, is simply 
the shadow of the realty which exists in the light and 
life of God — and the Children of Israel represent God's 
spiritual creatures whom He created in His own 
image in contradistinction to the physical man 
who partakes of the nature of the spiritual life of the 
fallen angel and who rebelled against God's spiritual 
kingdom. 

But the Children of Israel yielded to the fleshly 
man in their wandering from Egypt to Canaan, just 
as His spiritual creatures daily yield to the fleshly 
nature of the physical man. "Therefore he lifted up 
his hand against them to overthrow them in the wil- 
derness." Psalm 126:26. Daily, His spiritual crea- 
tures are indulging in the lust of the flesh and taking 
into their spiritual consciousness the lust of the flesh 
and the carnal mind and thus provoke God's spiritual 
nature and become out of harmony with God's spir- 
itual laws and His spiritual kingdom. Yet He re- 
membereth His spiritual creatures and redeemeth 
them from the power of the flesh. "For he remem- 
bered his holy promise, and Abraham, his servant. 
And he brought forth his people with joy, and his 
chosen with gladness." Psalm 105:42, 43. Notwith- 
standing the Children of Israel, who represent God's 
spiritual children made in His own image, yielded to 
the power of the flesh and worshiped images and 
idols through the senses of the physical man, yet God 
remembered His promise to Abraham. So God re- 



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members His spiritual children whom He created in 
His own image; and notwithstanding they yield to the 
lust of the fleshly man and the carnal mind, yet He 
guided and protected His spiritual children whom He 
made in His own image. 

But He punished the Children of Israel for yield- 
ing to the lust of the physical man, for worshiping 
the idols and images of the physical man through the 
physical senses; and He daily punishes His children 
whom He made in His image for yielding to the lust 
and the carnal mind, by excluding from their spiritual 
consciousness spiritual light and spiritual life. "Now 
these things were our examples to the extent that we 
should not lust after evil things as they also lusted." 
Corinthians 1:10-6. 

Here the Apostle Paul refers to the Children of 
Israel as representing God's spiritual children — and 
their yielding to the power of the flesh and worship- 
ing images and idols, as representing the spiritual 
man in yielding to the physical man and the god of 
the flesh. Paul declared that we, the spiritual chil- 
dren created in God's own image, should not lust after 
the things of the physical man, for in so doing the 
spiritual man is wandering in spiritual darkness just 
as the Children of Israel wandered in the wilderness 
worshiping images and idols. The Jew is the representa- 
tive of the spiritual man and his bondage and cap- 
tivity and deliverance from captivity represents the 
spiritual man — his bondage to the flesh and slavery 
to the carnal mind and the deliverance of the spiritual 
man from the power of the physical man. "And when 
Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men 
of Israel, why marvel ye at this? Or, why look ye 
so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or 
holiness we had made this man to walk? The God of 



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Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fath- 
ers, hath glorified His Son Jesus; whom ye delivered 
up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he 
was determined to let him go." Acts 3:12, 13. 
Here Peter declares that the God of all spiritual crea- 
tion, of all of his spiritual creatures, glorified 
His Son, the Christ, when the fleshly man was 
crucified upon the cross — that is, He glorified His 
spiritual kingdom and His spiritual creatures whom 
He made in His image, when the fleshly man was 
crucified upon the Cross. When the fleshly man died 
the spiritual man lived. When the fleshly man was 
destroyed the spiritual man triumphed. Israel is God's 
spiritual children whom He made in His own image 
and the fleshly man conceived by woman died on the 
Cross. As the fleshly man dieth daily, the spiritual 
man liveth and groweth in spiritual consciousness, 
light and life. As Egypt and the people who held 
Israel in bondage lose their power, Israel became 
free and walks in the light of liberty; as the fleshly 
man with his lust and carnal mind dies, the spiritual 
man with light and life liveth. 

The Jews were looking for a national king — for 
a king who would rule them as a nation. They never 
conceived that they were the representatives of God's 
spiritual children. They were looking for a fleshly 
king to rule the fleshly man. It was this conception — 
or, rather misconception — of the coming of the Christ 
that the Prophets cried out against. The power of the 
Spirit — God's spiritual power — flowed like a mighty 
ocean into the hearts of the Prophets and with a spir- 
itual vision they saw the coming of the Prince of 
Peace, the King of the spiritual man — and told it in 
visions to the spiritual mind of the Jews; but with 
their fleshly natures, the physical man with his carnal 



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mind could not understand the Prophets. All the sac- 
rifices, and the high priests, of which Aaron was the 
first, was simply a shadow of the reality that was to 
come — the High Priest, the Christ, and the Sacrifice 
and the Crucification of the fleshly man on the Cross. 

The Jews were told not to marry other nations; 
their Law givers and Prophets taught them to abstain 
from marriage with the heathens. This was symbolic. 
The Jew represented the spiritual man and the 
heathen, the fleshly man, and marriage represented 
union ; and the reason they were prohibited from mar- 
rying the heathen nations, represents that the spir- 
itual man should abstain from the fleshly man and 
not unite with the lust and the carnal mind of the 
physical man. 

The Jews were constantly at war with the sur- 
rounding nations and were frequently being captured 
by the nations all about them. This is symbolic. The 
wars between the Jews and the surrounding nations 
represent the continuous war going on between the 
spiritual and the physical man and the captivity of 
the spiritual man by the power of the lust of the physi- 
cal man. 

Yet the Jews were God's chosen people — just as 
His spiritual creatures, whom He made in His spir- 
itual image are His spiritual children. "But he an- 
swered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep 
of the House of Israel. ,, Matthew 15:24. Here 
Christ represents Israel as the spiritual man whom 
God created in His own image, lost in bondage and 
slavery to the fleshly man, born of woman, and de- 
clares He is only sent to the spiritual man whom God 
created in His own image, and not to the fleshly man 
whose lust and carnal mind is anti-spiritual and in 
rebellion against God. 



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Christ wept when He realized that the Jew did 
not fully realize that He, the Christ, was sent to the 
spiritual man, and not to the physical man. "Oh, 
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the Prophets, 
and stoneth them which are sent unto thee, how often 
would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen 
gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would 
not! " Matt. 23:37. 

Here Christ declares how He would and will 
gather His spiritual children under His protecting 
wings if they will not yield to the fleshly man and the 
lust of the carnal mind, but remain in a state of spir- 
itual consciousness in harmony with Him and His 
Father's spiritual kingdom. 

"Jerusalem" means vision — spiritual vision — yet 
Israel yielded to the fleshly man and the carnal na- 
ture and power of lust until God said He would de- 
stroy Jerusalem, destroy the Jews' spiritual vision. He 
destroys the spiritual man's spiritual vision when he 
yields to the law of the flesh — just as He told Adam, the 
first physical man who yielded to the power of lust, he 
should return to dust. Christ said there should not 
be one stone left upon another of Jerusalem and that 
saying has literally become true. Jerusalem, which 
God's chosen children converted into a material wor- 
ship, has been destroyed. When the spiritual man 
attempts to worship God through the physical senses 
and the carnal mind of the physical man, he loses his 
spiritual vision, for the physical man is out of har- 
mony with God, cannot know God and must die. But 
the New Jerusalem, which represents the City of 
Spiritual Light and Life, is told to us in Revelation. 
The fleshly man, with his carnal mind and power of 
lust, cannot enter its gates, cannot enter the vision of 
the spiritual man. The New Jerusalem represents 



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the state of the spiritual man redeemed from 
the power of the fleshly man. It represents Spirit and 
God's spiritual kingdom where His spiritual children 
made in His own image liveth spiritually forever. 

"And a superscription also was written over him 
in letters of Greek, Latin and Hebrew, This is the 
King of the Jews." St. Luke 23:38. This superscrip- 
tion written over Christ on the Cross was the sarcasm 
and ridicule of the carnal mind of the physical man, 
and yet unknowingly they wrote the truth of all ages. 
They had looked for a king of the physical man to 
rule them as a nation in the flesh, and he had been 
crucified by the fleshly man in his fleshly nature be- 
cause He claimed to be the Son of God. But He was 
the King of the Jews — that is, the spiritual king of 
the spiritual man — whom God made in His image and 
whom the Jew as a race was symbolical of and rep- 
resented. He was the King of the spiritual man and 
the Jew represents the spiritual man made in God's 
image. 

"And Melchizedek — King of Salem — brought 
forth bread and wine and he was the priest of the 
most high God." Genesis 14:18. "And the Lord has 
sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for- 
ever after the order of Melchizedek." Psalm 110: 
4. "And being made perfect, He became the Au- 
thor of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; 
called of God a High Priest after the order of Mel- 
chizedek." Hebrews 5:9, 10. "And he saith also 
in another place, Thou art a priest forever after 
the order of Melchizedek." Hebrews 5:6. "Whither 
the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made 
a High Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek." 
Hebrews 6:20. "For this Melchizedek, King of 
Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abra- 



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ham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and 
blessed him; to whom also Abraham gave a tenth 
part of all; first being by interpretation King of 
righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, 
which is King of Peace; without father, without 
mother, without descent, having neither beginning of 
days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of 
God; abideth a priest continually." Hebrews 7:1-3. 
Here we see Melchizedek was the forerunner of 
Christ and represented perfect Spirit and the spirit- 
ual man as freed from the lust of the physical man. 
He had neither father nor mother nor decent; that 
is, He was not conceived by the power of lust of the 
physical man, but was Spirit manifested in the flesh 
by the power of the Spirit. That He had neither the 
beginning of days nor the end of life, that is, being 
Spirit and not flesh, He was eternal in His nature. 
All Spirit is eternal and the spiritual kingdom is 
eternal. The priesthood of the Jews was the symbol 
and sign of the spiritual man and the spiritual power 
— not that their formalities had any virtue in them- 
selves, and not that they as men were any better than 
any other men, but that the formalities that they under- 
went and the sacrifices that they offered up were sym- 
bolic of the death of the physical man, and the spir- 
itual life of the spiritual man. Melchizedek being 
manifested in the flesh by the power of the Spirit and 
being spiritual and a spiritual personality, was free 
from the lust of the physical man and the carnal mind 
by which the physical man is conceived and there- 
fore spiritually was a perfect forerunner of the Christ 
who was conceived by the power of the Spirit and 
without human passion. 

This is what God meant when He said that the 
seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob should be as the 



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stars of the heaven and the sands of the sea and 
should be scattered among all the nations of the earth 
— that is, the Jews, as the descendants of Abraham, 
Isaac and Jacob, should typify and be the symbol of 
God's spiritual children whom He created in His own 
image and that they should be scattered wherever the 
fleshly man is to be found ; and that Melchizedek man- 
ifested in the flesh, without human passion, was the 
forerunner of the Christ, who was conceived by the 
power of the Spirit and without fleshly lust, and is 
spiritually the High Priest of God's spiritual chil- 
dren. 

The Jews holding together through all the ages 
as a race and retaining their identity represents the 
spiritual man identity, separate and distinct from the 
fleshly man. The Jews declining and refusing to in- 
termarry with other races, represent that the spirit- 
ual man should not unite with and yield to the fleshly 
man. The Jews' denial of the Christ, represents the 
spiritual man denying the power of the Spirit and 
yielding to the flesh; and His persecutions represent 
the fleshly man with his lustful nature and carnal 
mind persecuting the spiritual man. The separation 
of Lot and Abraham is symbolic of the separation 
of the fleshly and the spiritual man. "And I will 
make thy seed as the dust of the earth; so that if a 
man can number the dust of the earth ; and then shall 
thy seed also be numbered." Genesis 13:16. Here 
God told Abraham to separate from Lot and Lot 
to go his way and he, Abraham, go his and he would 
make the seed of Abraham as the dust of the earth. 
That is, that Abraham's seed should outnumber the 
dust of the earth. Here Lot represents the fleshly 
man and Abraham the spiritual man; and his seed 
represent God's children created in His own image. 



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"That is, they which are the children of the flesh, 
these are not the children of God; but the children 
of the promise are counted for the seed. For this is 
the word of promise, At this time I will come, and 
Sarah shall have a son. And not only this; but when 
Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father 
of Isaac; (for the children being not yet born, neither 
having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God 
according to election might stand, not of works, but 
of him that calleth;) it was said unto her, The elder 
shall serve the younger; as it is written, Jacob have I 
loved, but Esau have I hated." Romans 9:8-12. 
Jacob here represents the spiritual man and Esau the 
fleshly man; and it is Jacob, the spiritual man, whom 
God created in His own image, whom He elected and 
chose before the foundation of the world; and it was 
Esau, the fleshly man conceived of lust and born of 
woman, whom God knew before the foundation of the 
world, and before the material creation, who partakes 
of the spiritual nature of the angels who rebelled 
against God and His kingdom, that God condemned to 
death before the physical creation. God said He knew 
he would fall; that is, he would yields to lust and be 
conceived by the passion of the flesh. This is the elec- 
tion theologians with their physical and carnal minds 
have been disputing over through all the ages. God 
elected to life the spiritual man whom He created in His 
own, if he will only avail himse^ 01 the atoning power 
of Christ. And condemned to death before the founda- 
tion of the world and the material creation, the physi- 
cal man who was conceived in lust. 

"I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — the 
God of Israel — the God of the spiritual man whom I 
made in my own image saith the Lord, and not of the 
fleshly man." It is this spiritual man that the Jew as 



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a race represents. That is what Christ meant when 
the Pharisees and the Scribes came to Him and asked, 
When the woman had been married to seven different 
husbands, whose wife would she be in the other world, 
and He said unto them, "My Father is the Father of 
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob," that is the Father of the 
spiritual man. "In His kingdom they neither marry 
nor are given in marriage." And when he said, "Again 
for this cause shall a man leave his father and his moth- 
er and cleave unto his wife and their flesh shall be one," 
He meant to draw the distinction between the spiritual 
man and the fleshly man and to declare the truth that 
the spiritual man is of God and made in God's image; 
and that marriage is a human institution and that 
the physical man is conceived in lust and anti-spiritual 
in his nature. 

By revelation the Jew was given the spiritual law 
to govern the spiritual man and the physical law to 
govern the physical man. The Jew had no hospitals 
— no jails and no asylums, because by revelation, he 
was taught to subject the physical man of lust to 
the spiritual man of life. 

But man-made theology has adulterated the Chris- 
tian system with paganism and made it a religion for 
the physical senses and the carnal mind and the lust of 
the fleshly man. And for violating the laws of God and 
subjecting the spiritual man to the physical man and 
his lust and carnal mind, Christendom is composed of 
people who are physical wrecks, mental imbeciles, and 
criminals, handed down from generation to generation ; 
until the generation living is the subject of the crimes, 
and lust of generations for centuries. 

Oh! that the spiritual man could see and under- 
stand this truth, that Christendom might return to the 
God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — to the God of 



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Isreal — the spiritual man, and worship God, a Spirit 
by the spiritual senses of the spiritual man and sub- 
ject the lust of the carnal mind of the physical man 
to the spiritual man and restore the human race to a 
state of spiritual happiness — to a state of spiritual 
consciousness in harmony with the living God and abol- 
ish physical sickness — mental imbecility — and crimes 
from the human race. 



CHAPTER XVII. 

The Priesthood. 

We have seen that Aaron was the first High Priest 
of the Jews and that Melchizedek was a priest, the 
forerunner of Christ, without father and without 
mother and without descent; that he was Spirit mani- 
fested in the flesh. The priests of the Jews were 
taken from the Tribe of Levi. And their duty was to 
offer up sacrifices. Sacrifices indicated the coming 
of Christ and His crucifixion upon the Cross. All 
nations — heathen and pagan — have had their priest- 
hood who offered up sacrifices. It is instinct within 
the human heart that there is something spiritual 
within man which is in rebellion against the physical 
man and he wants to crucify and kill the physical 
man in order to free the spiritual man who is in 
bondage to the physical man. By instinct therefore 
and without revelation, the pagans of all ages and all 
races had their priesthood to offer up sacrifices. Sac- 
rifice means "the shedding of blood" — and the shed- 
ding of blood means the death of the physical man. 
The sacrifices offered by the priesthood of the Jews 
were symbolical of the crucifixion of the physical man 
upon the cross. 

God said unto the Jews : "I will make thee a priest- 
hood forever of the living God." This has been mis- 

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construed into a physical priesthood and ceremonies 
that had saving virtue for the spiritual man. God 
did not mean that He would make the physical man a 
priesthood forever and that there was saving power 
in the ceremonies and sacrifices offered up by the 
priests — but He meant to say that the priesthood rep- 
resented the spiritual man and as he crucified the lust 
of flesh and the carnal mind of the physical man he 
became spiritually a priest in God's kingdom. The 
sacrifices offered up by the priest represented the 
death of the physical man; the spiritual man, who is 
life, triumphing over the physical man, who is death. 
God said that He entered into a covenant with the 
priesthood forever. In the very nature of things no 
man or class of men, physically, could live forever. It 
was the spiritual man that liveth forever whom God 
was addressing and whom He declared that He entered 
into covenant with as a priesthood ; i. e., the priesthood 
of eternal life. 

"To whom coming, as unto a living stone, dis- 
allowed indeed of men, but chosen of God and pre- 
cious, ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual 
house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacri- 
fices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ" (1 Peter 
2:4-5). "And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful 
witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the 
Prince of the kings of the earth. Unto Him that loved 
us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and 
hath made us kings and priests unto God and His leath- 
er; to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. 
Amen" (Rev. 1:5-6). 

"And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art 
worthy to take the book, and open the seal thereof; 
thou wast slain, and hath redeemed us to God by thy 
blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, 



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and nation ; and hast made us unto our God, kings and 
priests: and we shall reign on the earth" (Rev. 
5:9-11). 

Here we see that the priesthood is a spiritual state 
and every man is a priest who crucifieth the power of 
the flesh and enters into spiritual harmony and spir- 
itual life with God. That is, it is the spiritual man 
whom God made in His own image and who denies the 
lust of the flesh, the carnal mind and the power of the 
physical man and liveth in spiritual harmony with 
God and God's spiritual kingdom, who is the priest. 
Melchizedek being perfect Spirit manifest in the flesh 
without the lust of the flesh was the forerunner of 
Christ as the Chief Priest of the spiritual kingdom. 
Aaron was the first High Priest and all the sacrifices 
offered up by him and the priesthood and the tribe of 
Levi simply represented that only Christ, the Chief of 
Priests, could enter absolutely into the spiritual life 
and light of God's spiritual kingdom. All of the of- 
ferings and sacrifices of the priests were only symboli- 
cal and passed away when the Chief Priest, the Christ 
in his fleshly nature, was offered up and sacrificed upon 
the Cross. By the sacrifice of the fleshly man of the 
Christ, all of God's children whom He made in His 
image, can become priests in His spiritual kingdom by 
entering into a state of spiritual consciousness in har- 
mony with God's spiritual Kingdom — Light and Life. 
Christ, His Son, in His spiritual nature, was the Chief 
of Priests, i. e., perfect Spirit, Light and Life. All of 
God's children made in His image by denying the 
fleshly man and partaking of the spiritual life of the 
Chief Priest — the Christ — and of God and His spirit- 
ual kingdom, can become spiritual priests in God's 
kingdom. It was this spiritual man whom God en- 
tered into a covenant with that He would make a priest 



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forever — for only Spirit is eternal. It was not the 
flsehly man with the seeds of death within him, con- 
ceived in passion, and born of woman and who is at 
enmity wtih God and His spiritual kingdom or any 
class of men or sect or tribe that God entered into a 
covenant with to make priests forever. 

The poor weak physical man in lust conceived and 
born of woman and all of his offerings and sacrifices 
must soon pass away and never know God's kingdom 
or spiritual life and light. But the spiritual man 
whom God created in His own image, who denies the 
flesh, the lust of the physical man, and partakes of 
spiritual life and comes into a state of spiritual con- 
sciousness through the crucification and the death of 
the physical nature of the Christ on the Cross, who 
was the Chief Priest in God's spiritual kingdom, will 
enter into a state of spiritual life and will become 
a Priest forever in God's spiritual kingdom. 

Christ as such Chief Priest surrendered unto 
death as to the fleshly man and survived unto life as 
to the spiritual man. The Natural birth is unholy 
and it was the sacrifice for the sins of the carnal mind 
that Christ as the Chief Priest suffered in His fleshly 
nature on the cross. "And the Lord spake unto Moses 
saying, Speak unto the children of Israel saying: If a 
woman have conceived seed and born a man child ; then 
she shall be unclean seven days ; according to the days 
of separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean. 
And in the eighth day, the flesh of his foreskin shall 
be circumcized. And she shall then continue in the 
blood of her purifying three and thirty days ; she shall 
touch no hallowed thing nor come unto the sanctuary 
until the days of her purifying be fulfilled. But if 
she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two 
weeks as in her separation; and she shall continue in 



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the blood of her purifying for three score and six days. 
And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled for a 
son or a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first 
year for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a tur- 
tle dove for a sin offering unto the door of the taber- 
nacle of the congregation, unto the priest — who shall 
offer it up before the Lord and make an atonement for 
her and she shall be clean from the issue of her blood. 
This is the law for her that hath born a male or a fe- 
male. And if she be not able to bring the lamb, then 
she shall bring two turtle doves or two young pigeons ; 
the one for the burnt offering and the other for the sin 
offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her 
and she shall be clean" (Lev. 12:1-9). Here we see 
the conception of the physical man is contrary to God's 
spiritual laws and His spiritual kingdom and that this 
was the fall of man; that lust and sexual passion is 
anti-spiritual and partakes of the nature of the fallen 
angels who are in rebellion against God's spiritual 
kingdom. That the atonement is the destruction of 
this physical man with his lustful nature and carnal 
mind and the destruction of his power over the physi- 
cal man and placing the spiritual man in harmony with 
God's spiritual nature. That the priestly office is the 
spiritual man, through the power of the Spirit tri- 
umphing, over the fleshly man. That the conception 
of the physical man is contrary to God's spiritual king- 
dom, is the cardinal principle of the Atonement and 
Redemption and the misconstruction and misinterpre- 
tation which has declared the physical conception and 
birth divine, has been the fatal error of the theologians 
of all the ages. Christ, as the Chief Priest in redeem- 
ing the spiritual man from the power of the physical 
man conceived in lust, triumphs spiritually over the 
power of the flesh. "For verily he took not on him 



The Priesthood. 213 

the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of 
Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behooved Him 
to be made like unto His brethren that He might be 
a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertain- 
ing to God — to make reconciliation for the sins of the 
people" (Hebrews 12:16-17). 

Here we see that Christ took on Him the seed of 
Abraham; that is, the nature of the spiritual man, 
for the seed of Abraham represents the spiritual man, 
and as High Priest triumphed over the flesh, its lust 
and power, just as every spiritual child of God must 
by the power of the Spirit triumph over the fleshly 
man, his lust and carnal mind. 

"The Lord hath sworn and will not repent — thou 
are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek ,, 
(Psalm 110:4). Melchizedek was a perfect manifes- 
tation of the Spirit in the flesh without the beginning 
of days or the end of time; without father or mother 
and without descent. He was Spirit — therefore eter- 
nal life. Here, the Scriptures declare that as such he 
was the forerunner of Christ, the Chief Priest who in 
His spiritual nature was perfect Spirit manifested in 
the flesh without lust and passion; and that each one 
of God's children spiritually is a priest after the order 
of Melchizedek; that is the spiritual man whom God 
created has neither natural father or mother, nor 
descent nor the beginning of days, nor the end of time ; 
that the spiritual man that God created in His own 
image is Spirit and therefore eternal, and as he tri- 
umphs over the fleshly man and denies the carnal mind 
and the lust of the fleshly man and lives in harmony 
with God's spiritual nature, he is a priest after the 
order of Melchizedek. The sacrifices of Aaron and the 
Hebrew priests were shadows of this reality. "Seeing 
then that we have a great High Priest that has passed 



214 The Truth About the Bible. 

into the heavens: Jesus the Son of Vjrod, let us hold 
fast our profession. For we have not an High Priest 
which cannot be touched with a feeling of our infirm- 
ities but was in all points tempted as we are, yet with- 
out sin" (Hebrews 4 : 14-15) . 

"Which hope we have as an anchor of .he sou., 
both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that 
within the veil; whither the forerunner is for us en- 
tered, even Jesus, made an High Priest forever after 
the order of Melchizedek ,, (Hebrews 6:19-20). "If 
therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood 
(for under it the people received the law), what fur- 
ther need was there that another priest should rise 
after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after 
the order of Aaron?" (Hebrews 7 :11) . 

Here we see that the Levitical priesthood of the 
Jews was a mere shadow of the reality of the spiritual 
priesthood of the Christ as Chief Priest ; and the Spirit 
of God's children whom He made in His own image 
as they crucify the power of the flesh and partake of 
spiritual life. The priestly state is a spiritual state 
and priestly power is spiritual power. It is the power 
of the Spirit in crucifying the power of the fleshly 
man and partaking of spiritual light and life. Every 
child of God whom He created in His own image is a 
priest when he crucifieth the lust and the passion of 
the physical man and partaketh of spiritual light and 
life. 

"And behold the veil of the temple was rent in 
twain from top to bottom ; and the earth did quake and 
the rocks did rent" (Matt. 22-51). Here we see when 
the Christ was crucified upon the cross, that is, when 
the fleshly man died with his lust and passion and the 
spiritual man triumphed with his light and life, the 
veil of the temple was rent in twain. Under the Jew- 



The Priesthood, 215 

ish priesthood, none could enter the Holy of Holies 
except the Chief Priest. Of course, the Holy of Holies 
represented absolute spiritual life and the Chiel Priest 
was the shadow, and the figure of the Christ the Chief 
Priest, who was to come with absolute spiritual life and 
complete power over the fleshly man. When the Chief 
Priest — the Christ — died in His fleshly nature on the 
Uross, He triumphed in His spiritual nature absolutely 
over the fleshly man. Spirit triumphed over the mat- 
ter ; life over death and as the veil was rent in twain 
every child of Cod made in God's image could enter the 
Holy of Holies, i. e., into spiritual life and light and 
God's spiritual nature. 

The Crucifixion on the Cross was the completion 
of the reality of which the Jewish Priests, with 
their formalities and sacrifices, were but shadows and 
symbol. When Christ died on the cross in His 
fleshly nature, these symbols and formalities passed 
away without virtue. When Christ died upon the 
Cross, the fleshly man was conquered by the spiritual 
man, Spirit triumphed over nature, Life over death, 
and every child of God — the spiritual man whom God 
created in his own image — could enter into the Holy of 
Holies, into spiritual Light and Life, into God's spir- 
itual kingdom and become a priest forever, after the 
order of Melchizedek; — Perfect Spirit — perfect Light 
— perfect Life — God's child made by God in His own 
image. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 

The Immaculate Conception — The Crucifixion — 

The Resurrection — The Atonement — Baptism 

— Conversion and Regeneration, and 

the Trinity. 

(Immaculate Conception.) 

This is the cardinal question of Christianity. It 
is the issue. Upon it the truth of Christianity stands 
or falls. Was Jesus conceived and born of Mary with- 
out a natural father? If so, then He was no mere 
man ; He was not human but Divine and was what He 
claimed to me, the Son of the living God. If He had a 
natural father and was conceived as the other mem- 
bers of the human family, then He was a fraud and the 
Christian system is a falsehood and untrue. 

Man-made theology and the so-called orthodox 
theologians have confessed themselves out of court; 
they have confessed judgment to the agnostic and 
aethestic world by claiming that marriage is an holy 
institution and one of the sacraments of the church and 
that the human birth is holy and sacred. If marriage 
be a sacrament of the church and human conception 
and the birth of the natural man sacred and spiritual, 
then there was no need of Christ being miraculously 
conceived and man needed no redemption. 

All admit as a historical fact that Jesus Christ 

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The Immaculate Conception. 217 

existed ; if man's natural birth is spiritual, Christ was 
no more spiritual than any other man. If marriage 
be a spiritual institution, human conception and birth 
holy, then man needs no Redeemer and every man is as 
much Divine as Christ. 

We deny that marriage is a spiritual institution, 
conception and birth spiritual, but natural conception 
and birth originates in the power of the lust of the 
flesh and is contrary to everything that is spiritual 
and to every law and nature of God's spiritual king- 
dom. 

Therefore, where the spiritual man, whom God 
made in His own image, yielded to the lust of the fleshly 
man he took the nature of the darkness of the fleshly 
man into his spiritual consciousness. He partook of 
spiritual death and needed redemption, atonement and 
salvation. 

We contend by authority of revelation and by 
natural law that Jesus Christ was conceived and born 
without a natural father. While we have revelation 
as our authority for His divinity, His divine nature 
is sustained by natural law. Natural law sustains His 
divinity with as much authority as revelation. Wipe 
out all revelation, destroy the Bible as a book of in- 
spiration and give us His teaching as matter of record 
and we can sustain His divinity by natural law. 

The material universe is produced by the law of 
lust, which is anti-spiritual and contrary to the laws of 
the spiritual universe, therefore there is no harmony 
between Spirit and matter, between the physical cre- 
ation and the spiritual creation; they are in conflict 
with each other. Man born of natural parents takes 
into his spiritual consciousness the law and the nature 
of lust which darkens to his spiritual light and is death 



218 The Truth About the Bible. 

unto his spiritual nature. The spiritual man made 
in God's image, manifested in the flesh, by passion and 
the law of lust, inherits and innately takes into his 
spiritual consciousness the law of lust and the carnal 
mind of the physical man. He cannot see with per- 
fect spiritual vision nor hear with perfect spiritual 
ears nor understand with perfect spiritual understand- 
ing ; he is not in perfect harmony with the spiritual na- 
ture of his Maker. 

Therefore Socrates, Plato, Confucius and Buddha 
and all of the great mental and spiritual minds of the 
human race who were born of natural parents, by the 
law of pasion and lust, could not teach absolute spirit- 
ual truth and understand with perfect understanding 
the spiritual nature of God. They reached nearer 
spiritual perfection than the great masses of the hu- 
man family and therefore were not understood by the 
carnal mind of the rest of the human race. But they 
could not understand absolutely the spiritual nature of 
God. They were not perfect spiritually. They were 
manifested in the flesh by the law of passion and lust 
and their spiritual natures were not in absolute har- 
mony with God's spiritual kingdom and spiritual laws. 
Christ was the only Teacher that ever taught absolute 
spiritual truth and understood it with absolute spirit- 
ual understanding. Infidel, agnostic, materialist, athe- 
ist, all admit that His teachings are the highest stand- 
ard of truth ever given to the human race. The ag- 
nostic and the infidel world admit that His teachings 
are of such perfect nature that human nature cannot 
live up to them or fully understand them. The agnos- 
tic and the atheistic world admit that His teachings 
were the best code that was ever given to the human 
race to govern and regulate the human family. 

Moses, nor the Prophets, whom it is claimed, and 



The Immaculate Conception. 219 

correctly so, were inspired, never understood spiritual 
truth or taught spiritual things as did Christ; be- 
cause in their human nature they were conceived by 
the power of lust and therefore could not be absolute- 
ly in harmony with spiritual laws and the spiritual 
truth while the spiritual man existed in the material 
man. 

Chrises teachings were contrary to all human na- 
ture and to the carnal mind. Every truth that He 
taught and every principle which He declared to be 
divine truth was contrary to human nature and to the 
human mind. The human mind could not understand 
Him and could not comprehend His teachings and hu- 
man nature was and ever will be at war with the 
truths which He taught. His teachings could not be 
understood by the Scribes and the Pharisees and the 
priesthood ; they were in conflict with what these men 
taught, with their lives and human nature. There is 
no compromise with the truths that Christ taught and 
human nature; the human man and the human mind 
will ever be at war until the end of time with his teach- 
ings, and why? Because He was divine — He was 
Spirit manifested in the flesh without the law of lust 
and sexual passion ; and the human man with his carnal 
mind conceived in lust and passion is of the opposite 
nature and cannot understand spiritual things nor en- 
ter into the state of spiritual consciousness of the 
Christ, who was absolute Spirit. 

Christ had not the learning, nor the scholarship 
of the great thinkers and spiritual minds of 
the world. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, Con- 
fucius and Buddha and other great spiritual and 
mental teachers of the world, were the perfection of 
all that learning, mental training, moral comprehen- 
sion of a great civilization could teach them, yet none 



220 The Truth About the Bible, 

of these men approached or approximated the teach- 
ings of the Christ; all of their teachings had some of 
the human nature and the human mind in them. And 
why? Because they were Spirit manifested in the 
flesh by the law of lust and passion and therefore could 
not enter into a state of absolute spiritual conscious- 
ness. Human nature and the carnal mind, lust and 
passion of the flesh entered into their state of spiritual 
consciousness and therefore their lives and their teach- 
ings were imperfect. 

Every truth that Christ taught is absolutely at is- 
sue with human nature and the human mind. Human 
nature never has and never can be reconciled and made 
to harmonize with His teachings. The carnal mind 
never has and never will understand His teachings. 

We are taught in the 12th chapter of Leviticus 
that the mother of a natural child, after conception and 
birth, had to make sacrifices for the conception and 
birth of the natural child. And why? Because the 
human child is conceived and born of lust. The lust 
of the flesh is in conflict with God and God's spiritual 
nature, therefore every human child born of natural 
parents is conceived in lust and sin. For this sin, we 
are taught, the mother had to bring her sacrifices to 
the altar, which represented spiritual repentance — that 
is, the mother repented spiritually for the physical 
conception of the human child and the yielding to the 
law of lust by which the human child is conceived and 
borned. Out of this truth circumcision was established 
as a law with the Jews. Circumcision means "the 
shedding of blood," and the generative organ of the 
male child was circumcised, representing the shedding 
of blood ; which represents death — death of the physi- 
cal man and the loss of his power over the spiritual 
man. This circumcision likewise has a spiritual mean- 



The Immaculate Conception. 221 

ing. The Scriptures teach us the circumcision of the 
heart, which means the spiritual man conquering and 
putting to death the physical man with his lust and 
passion. Had Christ been conceived by the law of 
lust and natural parents, the power and the nature of 
lust and the carnal mind would have entered His spir- 
itual consciousness and He would not have been in ab- 
solute harmony with God's spiritual nature and spir- 
itual attributes and His teachings spiritually would 
not have been absolute perfection and in all things ab- 
solutely contrary to human nature and in conflict with 
the human man and the human mind. 

Every thought He uttered — every truth He taught 
— every principle He declared, and every element of 
His life was in absolute conflict with human nature 
and the human mind. And upon this fact the truth of 
Christianity rests absolutely secure. 

There was not anything human in His life nor 
anything human in anything He taught. No human 
that ever lived can live up to His teachings. No hu- 
man being can reach that degree of spiritual life and 
spiritual truth which He taught. The best human 
being that ever lived or ever will live cannot reach that 
perfection of truth which He taught, and why? Be- 
cause the man born of natural parents is Spirit mani- 
fested in the flesh by the law of lust which is contrary 
to the attributes of God's nature ; and Christ was mani- 
fested in the flesh, perfect Spirit in harmony with the 
spiritual attributes of God's nature, without the law 
of lust and the attributes of the carnal mind entering 
his spiritual consciousness. Hence the Sermon on the 
Mount was the most perfect utterance of truth ever 
given to this world — it was spiritual perfection and 
no human mind can approximate it — and no human 
being live up to it. It was perfect Spirit manifested 



222 The Truth About the Bible. 

in the flesh without the law of lust declared unto men. 
His Sermon on the Mount was God speaking through 
His Son whom He manifested in the flesh without the 
law of lust and therefore perfect spiritual truth mani- 
fested unto men. Hence God's children manifested in 
tne flesh by the law of lust cannot fully comprehend 
it nor live up to it. 

Natural law declares by the very nature of things 
that Christ was Spirit manifested in the flesh without 
the law of lust — that he did not have a natural father ; 
that the attributes of lust and the carnal mind never 
entered His spiritual consciousness. 

When the infidel and the atheistic world can har- 
monize His life with the lives of the remainder of the 
human family — when they can harmonize His life with 
the lives of the best men that ever lived — then they 
can attack His Divinity. When the agnostic and the 
atheistic world can create a system of philosophy 
which will produce a race who can and will live up to 
the truth of His teachings — when they can find one 
man — one human being who can fully comprehend the 
spirit of His teachings and live up to the truth as He 
taught it, then they can place in issue His Divinity. 
But until then they must remain silent. 

But the same natural law of lust which declares 
the Divinity of Jesus Christ, likewise destroys every 
system of orthodox theology and establishes beyond 
question that marriage, natural conception and birth 
are human and anti-spiritual in their nature. They 
are contrary to the spiritual attributes of God's nature 
and His spiritual kingdom. The very law upon which 
the truth of the Divinity of Christ stands destroys 
orthodox theology — the law of the lust of the fleshly 
man. 

The writer is too good a lawyer to have first in- 



The Immaculate Conception. 223 

voked revelation as authority for the divinity of Jesus 
Christ, for the infidel and atheistic world denies the 
truth of revelation and the Bible. Therefore we could 
not quote as authority the subject matter, the very 
truth of which is at issue. We accept the Bible as a 
revelation but they do not. But having established 
the divinity of Jesus Christ by natural law, we now of- 
fer in evidence Revelation as secondary evidence. 

"Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign, 
behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall 
call his name Immanuel" (Isaiah 7:14). Immanuel 
means "God with us," which is perfect Spirit — a per- 
fect spiritual being with all the attributes of God's 
spiritual nature manifested in the flesh. "And he shall 
pass through Judah ; and he shall overflow and go over, 
he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out 
of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, Oh, Im- 
manuel" (Isaiah 8:8). Here the prophet Isaiah seven 
hundred and sixty years before Christ foretold of His 
immaculate conception and birth. Will any human 
mind explain to us, except by the law of revelation, 
how he foretold this spiritual truth? "Now the birth 
of Jesus Christ was on this wise; when as his mother 
Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came to- 
gether, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. 
Then Joseph, her husband, being a just man, and not 
willing to make her a public example, was minded to 
put her away privily. But while he thought on these 
things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him 
in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not 
to take unto thee Mary thy wife ; for that which is con- 
ceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring 
forth a Son, and thou shalt call His name JESUS ; for 
he shall save His people from their sins. Now all this 
was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken 



224 The Truth About the Bible. 

of the Lord by the Prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin 
shall be with child and shall bring forth a son, and they 
shall call His name Emmanuel, which being interpreted 
is, God with us. Then Joseph being raised from sleep 
did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took 
unto him his wife: and knew her not till she had 
brought forth her first born son; and he called His 
name Jesus" (Matt. 1:18-25). 

"And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was 
sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, 
to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, 
and of the house of David; and the virgin's name was 
Mary. And the angel came in unto her, and said, 
Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with 
thee: blessed art thou among women. And when she 
saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in 
her mind what manner of salutation this should be. 
And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary, for thou 
hast found favor with God. And behold, thou shall 
conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a Son, and shall 
call His name Jesus. He shall be great, and shall be 
called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God shall 
give unto Him the throne of His father David ; and He 
shall reign over the house of Jacob forever ; and of His 
kingdom there shall be no end. Then said Mary unto 
the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man ? 
And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy 
Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the High- 
est shall overshadow thee; therefore also that Holy 
Thing whichshall be born of thee shall be called the 
Son of God" (Luke 1 :26-35) . We observe here, "That 
He shall reign over the house of Jacob forever and of 
His kingdom there shall be no end" ; that is, He shall 
reign over the house of Jacob, the spiritual man whom 



The Immaculate Conception, 225 

God created in His own image, and there is no end of 
spiritual life. Spirit is eternal. 

"Which was born not of blood nor of the will of 
the flesh nor of the will of man but of God" (John 
1:13. "The Word which God sent unto the children 
of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ; He is Lord 
of all" (Acts 10:36). "And he was clothed in vesture 
dipped in blood and His name is called THE WORD 
OF GOD" (Rev. 19 :13) . "And He hath on His vesture 
and on his thigh the name written KING OF KINGS 
AND LORD OF LORDS" (Rev. 19:16). 

Thus we see that Holy Writ agrees with natural 
law that Jesus Christ was Immaculately Conceived 
and gives us the record. By authority of natural law 
and of revelation we float the old ship Zion into the 
harbor of a spiritual and Immaculate Conception and 
rest her on the eternal Rock of Ages and while the 
winds of infidelity and of lust howl and storm, beat 
and rage until they sink side by side every ship of ag- 
nosticism and atheism and man-made theology, created 
by the physical senses and the lust of the carnal mind, 
the old Ship of vion rests steadfastly, anchored 
serenely on the Rock of Ages throughout eternity. 

Christ was the seed of the woman, that is, he par- 
took of the fleshly nature without the law of lust and 
passion entering His spiritual conscience (That is, he 
did not have a natural father). This was necessary 
for the Atonement; that is, it was necessary for Him 
a perfect Spirit, with all the spiritual attributes of God, 
to be manifested in the flesh without lust (without a 
natural father) and to triumph over the flesh in order 
to reconcile the spiritual man, whom God created in 
His own image and who had been manifested in the 
flesh by the law of lust, with God's spiritual kingdom 
— to make man at-one-ment with God. "And I will 



226 The Truth About the Bible. 

put enmity between thee and the woman and between 
thy seed and her seed and it shall bruise thy head and 
thou shalt bruise his heel" (Genesis 3:15). ' ±hy 
seed" here refers to the fleshly man and means the 
fleshly man who is produced as the result of the law of 
passion and lust. "And her seed" means Christ who 
should be conceived without a natural father — 
Spirit in the flesh without the law of lust. And "The 
Enmity" here means the war between the spiritual 
man and the fleshly man ; and Christ was Spirit mani- 
fested in the flesh without the law of lust, and there- 
for lust never entered His spiritual consciousness. 

"How long wilt thou go about, oh, thou backslid- 
ing daughter ? For the Lord hath created a new thing 
in the earth. A woman shall compass a man" («jere- 
miah 31:22). Here the birth of Christ by a woman 
without natural law and without lust and passion is 
foretold by the Prophet. That He should be flesh and 
yet possess all the spiritual attributes of God's nature, 
was prophesied because He was to be and was con- 
ceived by the power of the Holy Ghost and manifested 
in the flesh without passion. "And behold thou shall 
conceive in thy womb and bring forth a son and shall 
call his name Jesus" (Luke 1:31). Christ was per- 
fect Spirit with all the attributes of God's spiritual 
nature manifested in the flesh without passion and 
lust, therefore the law of lust never entered His spir- 
itual consciousness ; yet having been born of a woman, 
He partook of the nature of the flesh and could recon- 
cile God's spiritual children whom God created in His 
own image with God and God's spiritual kingdom by 
triumphing over the flesh and the law of lust. This 
is the reason He was born of a woman, that is, that He 
might partake of the nature of the flesh. And He was 
born without a natural father that His spiritual life 



The Immaculate Conception. 227 

might contain all the spiritual attributes of God's spir- 
itual nature. If He had had a natural father, the law 
of lust would have entered His spiritual consciousness 
and He would not have remained in perfect harmony 
with God's spiritual kingdom and would not have con- 
tained all the spiritual attributes of God's spiritual na- 
ture. "But when the fullness of the time was come, God 
sent forth His Son made of a woman, made unto the law, 
to redeem them that were under the law, that we might 
receive the adoption of sons" (Gal. 4:4-5). Here we 
have the record of Christ's manifestation in the flesh 
without lust and containing all the spiritual attributes 
in His nature of God and yet partaking of the fleshly 
nature of the material man and thereby redeeming the 
spiritual man from bondage to the law of the fleshly 
man and reconciling the spiritual man in perfect har- 
mony with God. The spiritual man having been man- 
ifested in the flesh by the law of lust took into his spir- 
itual consciousness the attributes of the carnal mind 
and the fallen angels and therefore was out of har- 
mony with God's spiritual nature and could not live 
up to the attributes of God's spiritual kingdom. He 
was condemned under the law : he had within his spir- 
itual consciousness the attributes of lust of the fleshly 
man. Christ having been manifested in the flesh with- 
out lust remained in perfect harmony with God's spir- 
itual kingdom and had all the spiritual attributes of 
God's spiritual nature and triumphed over the fleshly 
man. 

In His fleshly nature He died unto the law of the 
flesh; in His spiritual nature, He lived in harmony 
with every law of God's spiritual kingdom. The de- 
pravity of the human man with his lustful nature, 
when taken into the consciousness of the spiritual man, 
made the Atonement necessary in order to restore the 



228 The Truth About the Bible. 

spiritual man whom God created in His own image 
back to harmony with God's spiritual kingdom and 
God's spiritual nature. 

The lust of the physical man was the temptation 
of the Christ ; was the power of the carna^ mind knocK- 
ing for admission to His spiritual consciousness. The 
lust of the flesh is the spiritual nature of the fallejn 
angels and spiritually speaking is spiritual death as 
well as physical death. Every funeral that slowly 
moves in solemn procession to the City of the Dead 
declares the irrefutable evidence that the lust of the 
flesh is death. "For this cause thou shalt return to 
dust." 

It was this power of lust personified in the nature 
of the fallen angels, which is called "the Devil," that 
attempted to tempt Christ. When He cast out devils 
He cast out this power of lust manifested in anti- 
spiritual thoughts. It was the thoughts of the carnal 
mind and the power of the lust of the flesh that He 
cast out from the spiritual consciousness of the spir- 
itual man when He cast out devils. These thoughts 
of lust of the carnal mind in the consciousness of 
the spiritual man possess the spiritual attributes of 
the angels who rebelled against God- — they were devils ; 
and Christ cast them out from the mind and the spir- 
itual consciousness of the spiritual man. 

He was tempted in the flesh, but the law of lust 
and the attributes of the carnal mind never entered his 
spiritual consciousness and that is what the Scripture 
means when it says, "He was tempted in all things as 
we are yet was without sin." Christ Himself defined 
the power and the nature of the law of lust and the car- 
nal mind entering the spiritual consciousness of the 
spiritual man when He said, "But I say unto you that 
whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her com- 



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mitteth adultery with her already in his heart" (Matt. 
5:28). Here Christ defines the power of the lust of 
the natural man and declares when it enters into the 
state of spiritual consciousness, that it destroys spirit- 
ual life; that is, the lust of the fleshly man is death, 
and the Spirit of the spiritual man is life. That is 
what the Devil did in tempting Christ, or rather at- 
tempted to do. The Devil being the lust of the natural 
man, tried to enter into the state of the spiritual con- 
sciousness of Christ. When Christ went into the 
wilderness and fasted forty days and forty nights, the 
tempter came to Him; and, of course, ''tempter" means 
Devil ; then the Devil, being the attributes of lust of the 
natural man, knocked at the door of Christ's spiritual 
consciousness. "Then the devil taketh him up into 
the Holy City, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the 
temple, and saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, 
cast thy self down ; for it is written He shall give His 
angels charge concerning thee : and in their hands they 
shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot 
against a stone. Jesus said unto him, It is written, 
Thou shalt not tempt the Lord, thy God. Again, the 
devil taketh him up into an exceedingly high mountain, 
and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and 
the glory of them ; and said unto him, All these things 
will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship 
me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence Satan. 
For it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy 
God, and him only shall thou serve. Then the devil 
leaveth him, and behold, Angels came and ministered 
unto him" (Matthew 4:5-11). 

The Holy City herein mentioned into which the 
devil carried Christ, was the spiritual conscience of 
Christ and dwelleth in every child made in God's 
image. It was this Holy City — spiritual consciousness, 



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— that the devil, which is the lust of the flesh, was at- 
tempting to enter — Christ's spiritual consciousness. 
But Christ having been conceived without lust, the 
law of lust and the carnal mind could not enter His 
spiritual consciousness. All of the kingdoms of this 
world and the glory of them mentioned here, of course, 
means the power of the fleshly man and the attributes 
of the carnal mind. It was the glory of material cre- 
ation which is anti-spiritual that the devil, that is, the 
lust of the fleshly man, offered to the Christ, who par- 
took of all the spiritual attributes of God. It was the 
glory of the lust of the fleshly man, trying to conquer 
the life of the spiritual man. It was a contest between 
Spirit and matter, between the lust of the fleshly man 
and the Life of the spiritual man. And Christ, having 
been born of a woman, His perfect spiritual nature hav- 
ing all the spiritual attributes of God, the lust of the 
flesh could not enter His spiritual consciousness, and 
destroy any of these spiritual attributes. Yet having 
been born of a woman, His perfect spiritual nature was 
manifested in the flesh, and conquered the law of the 
flesh and hence He was able to say, "Get thee hence, 
Satan." That is, He was able to close His spiritual 
consciousness against the lust of the fleshly man and 
the carnal mind and forever exclude them from His 
spiritual consciousness and the spiritual kingdom and 
the spiritual attributes of God's nature. 

We therefore see that the Divinity of Jesus Christ 
and His Immaculate Conception are established both by 
natural law and by revelation. 

Crucifixion. 

To crucify means "to subdue, to mortify," "to de- 
stroy the power or the ruling influence." That is what 
Christ did when He was crucified on the Cross. That 
is, He destroyed the power and the ruling influence of 



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the lust of the fleshly man and the carnal mind in the 
spiritual consciousness of the spiritual man. It was 
the Adam man that died on the cross, the Christ man 
lived. The fleshly man with all of his lust and car- 
nal mind died and the spiritual man with His spiritual, 
life lived. The lust of the physical man and his carnal 
mind were destroyed on the Cross in the consciousness 
of the spiritual man; this was "The Atonement ;" 
the law which demanded spiritual perfection and 
which the spiritual man, who is manifested in the flesh 
by the power of lust, could not fulfill because the law 
of lust had entered his spiritual conscience. The de- 
mands of the law were fulfilled on the Cross and lust 
was destroyed in the spiritual consciousness of every 
child of God, whom He made in His own image, who 
partakes of Christ's Atonement and makes it personal 
within his own conscience. 

"Now from the sixth hour, there was darkness 
over all the land until the ninth hour; and about the 
ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, saying, My 
God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me ? and behold, 
the veil of the temple was rent in twain from bottom 
to top and the earth it quaked and the rocks rent" 
(Matt. 27:46-51). "And Jesus cried in a loud voice 
and gave up the ghost and the veil of the temple was 
rent in twain from top to bottom" (Mark 15:37-38). 
"And it was about the sixth hour and there was dark- 
ness over all the earth until the ninth, and the sun was 
darkened and the veil of the temple was rent in the 
midst" (Luke 23:44-45). It was the Adam man — the 
man conceived of woman and created by the law of 
lust who died on the Cross. When the material man 
died on the Cross he lost his power and corrupting in- 
fluence and the reign of darkness within the con- 
science of the spiritual man was destroyed. God's 



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spiritual kingdom and God's spiritual nature over- 
came the nature of the angels who rebelled against His 
spiritual kingdom when the fleshly man died on the 
Cross. The earth was shrouded in darkness, Spirit 
overcome matter and Life overcame death. The Christ 
overcame the Adam man. 

"And the veil was rent in twain" ; the veil here men- 
tioned enclosed the Holy of Holies and none could en- 
ter the Holy of Holies except the Chief Priest during 
the Mosaic dispensation. "The temple" is every man's 
material body in which dwells the spiritual man made 
in God's image; and the spiritual man, spiritual con- 
sciousness, is the Holy of Holies. No man could enter 
into his own spiritual consciousness in a perfect state 
of spiritual life, who is conceived of the law of 
lust, until the Adam man died and the power of 
lust was destroyed in his spiritual consciousness. The 
Chief Priest was the symbol and the forerunner of The 
Christ. None could enter the state of perfect spiritual 
consciousness in absolute harmony with God's spir- 
itual nature except The Christ; but when The Christ 
died upon the Cross in the flesh, the rule and darkness 
of the lust and carnal mind of the physical man within 
the conscience of the spiritual man was destroyed, and 
every child of God whom He made in His image be- 
came a priest, and by partaking of the spiritual nature 
of The Christ, could enter into the Holy of Holies of 
his own spiritual consciousness and commune with 
God and know God's spiritual kingdom, spiritual laws 
and spiritual nature. The veil was rent in twain, and 
the power of lust and the carnal mind of the fleshly 
man which prevented the spiritual man from entering 
into a state of spiritual consciousness was destroyed 
from the consciousness of the spiritual man and spir- 



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itual man could enter into the Holy of Holies of his 
own spiritual nature. 

"Knowing this, that our old man is crucified wifh 
him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we 
should not henceforth serve sin" (Romans 6:6). "I 
am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not 
I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now 
live in the flesh I live by faith of the Son of God, who 
loved me and gave himself for me" (Gal. 2 :20) . "And 
they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with af- 
fections and lust" (Gal. 5:24). The Adam man was 
death, the Christ man was Life. The Adam man 
was conceived in lust, the Christ man by the power 
of God. The Adam man with his nature of lust and 
death, died on the Cross — the Christ man who possessed 
all the attributes of God's spiritual nature, lived and 
reigneth forevermore. The Adam man with his carnal 
mind and lustful nature, and who represents the spir- 
itual attributes of the angels who rebelled against 
God's spiritual kingdom, lost his power in God's spir- 
itual kingdom and within the spiritual consciousness 
of God's children, whom God created in his own imag % 
when Christ in this fleshly nature died on the Cross. 
The angels who rebelled against God's spiritual king- 
dam lost their power in their rebellion against God and 
His spiritual kingdom, when the fleshly man died on 
the Cross and the Christ man lived. That is what 
Christ mean when He said to Peter, "Flesh and b.ood 
hath not revealeth it unto thee, but my Father which 
is in heaven." That is, the fleshly man with his power 
of lust has lost his power over God's spiritual children. 
The fleshly man with his lust and carnal mind repre- 
sents the nature of the angels who rebelled against 
God's spiritual kingdom; and when Christ died upon 
the Cross in His fleshly nature, these angels who re- 



234 The Truth About the Bible. 

belled against God's kingdom lost their power over 
God's spiritual children and His spiritual kingdom. 
And God's children can enter into the Holy of Holies 
and commune with their Father. Flesh and blood 
have lost their power over the spiritual man. The 
fleshly man died and the spiritual man liveth forever. 
"Then answered all the people and said, His blood 
be on us and on our children" (Matt. 27:35). The 
Jew is a symbol of and represents the spiritual man, 
whom God created in His own image. They are God's 
chosen people. This spiritual man created in God's 
image is God's chosen child. The Jew from the day 
of the Crucifixion has been persecuted and scattered 
over the earth. The spiritual man is daily being per- 
secuted by the lust of the fleshly man. "His blood 
be on us and our children," that is, the crucifixion 
of the fleshly man represents the shedding of blood, 
and the shedding of blood represents death. And 
hence the fleshly man, while persecuting the spiritual 
man, is daily dying, and will until the end of time. The 
blood of the Christ, the fleshly man on the cross, is on 
the children of the Adam man, who are daily persecut- 
ing the spiritual children of God, created in His own 
image ; yet the spiritual children of God are living and 
will continue to live, and the fleshly man is dying and 
will continue to die until the end of time, when all of 
God's children will be set free from the bondage of the 
fleshly man. The Jew is a figure and symbolic of a 
great spiritual truth and the world does not under- 
stand it. The Jew as a race bears irrefutable evidence 
to the revelation and inspiration of the Bible and the 
Divinity of Jesus Christ. The Crucifixion means 
finally, the destruction of the power of the fallen angels 
and the death of the Adam man, and eternal life for 
the spiritual man, whom God created in His ima^e. 



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The Crucifixion represents death and life, death to 
the Adam man and life to the spiritual man. It rep- 
resents the destruction finally of the material universe 
and the eternity of the spiritual universe. 

Resurrection. 
Resurrection primarily means Life, not physical 
life, but spiritual life. It was the spiritual man, 
Christ, who arose from the grave. The Adam man 
born of a woman, and conceived in lust, when he dies, 
is dead, but the God man made in God's image is 
resurrected, that is, liveth, and continues to have life. 
The physical man conceived in lust and born of a wom- 
an, cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Flesh and blood 
cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven. Man-made 
theology has been trying to save the physical man con- 
ceived in lust and born of woman and has declared 
that he would be resurrected. Thus man-made theol- 
ogy has been teaching a physical god to the physical 
senses of a physical man. God says, "All things shall 
pass away except my word," "My word," here comes 
from the Greek word "logus," which means "expres- 
sion;" and He expressed Himself to His children, that 
is, to His spiritual children in His Son, the Christ 
who possessed all the spiritual attributes of the Fath- 
er, and God declares that His word shall never pass 
away, that is, the light and life of His spirituality, as 
expressed through His Son to His spiritual children, 
whom He made in His own image. The material 
creation therefore will pass away; there was a time 
when all was Spirit, when matter did not exist. The 
time will come when matter will cease to exist, when 
all will be Spirit. How is the physical man going to 
be resurrected and live eternally? When the physical 
man dieth he returneth to dust. "From dust wast 
thou taken and to dust thou shalt return." But the 



236 The Truth About the Bible. 

spiritual man shall live, shall have life. Resurrection 
is life and the spiritual man shall have life eternally. 
"As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness I 
shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness" 
(Psalm 17:15). Here the Psalmist foretells of the 
resurrection, that is: declares that he will be satisfied 
when he awakes in God's likeness. That is to say that 
he will be satisfied, when he, the spiritual man, shall 
awake in absolute spiritual life and likeness of God, 
the Father, who made him. "But as touching the res- 
urection of the dead, have ye not read that which was 
spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abra- 
ham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ? God 
is not the God of the dead, but of the living" (Matt. 
22:31-32). Here Christ declares that it is not the 
physical man that is resurrected, but the spiritual man, 
whom God created in His own image. He here de 
clares that God is not the God of the dead, that is, 
not the God of the physical man — conceived of lust and 
born of woman — but the God of the spiritual man — 
whom God made in His own image, and that it is this 
spiritual man whom God resurrects and unto whom 
God gives life. "Marvel not at this: for the hour is 
coming, in the which all that are in the graves 
shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; They that 
have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and 
they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of dam- 
nation" (John 5:28-29). Grave, here means death, that 
is, all who have separated from the physical man, that 
is, every child of God, shall come forth and "they that 
have done good, unto the resurrection of life," that is, 
shall be given life, spiritual life, according to the at- 
tributes of God's spiritual kingdom; "and they that 
have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." 
That is, those who have taken lust and the carnal mind 



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of the natural man into their spiritual consciousness, 
shall be denied spiritual life and light. The resur- 
rection is life. "And their eyes were opened and they 
knew him and he vanished out of their sight" (Luke 
24:31). Here we have Christ appearing to His Dis- 
ciples after the Resurrection, and manifesting himself 
to their physical senses and then disappearing in His 
spiritual nature. They couldn't understand the spirit- 
ual resurrection of the spiritual body, and He appeared 
to their physical senses to convince them of the truth of 
Resurrection, and He said unto them, "Why are ye 
troubled and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? 
Behold, my hands and my feet, that it is myself, handle 
me and see, for Spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye 
see me have" (Luke 24:38, 39). Here we have Him 
appearing again after the Resurrection and manifest- 
ing Himself to their physical senses in order that He 
might convince them of the truth of the Resurrection, 
but after He had manifested Himself to their physical 
senses, He withdrew from them as a physical person- 
ality and assumed His spiritual nature and spiritual 
body and spiritual personality. It was Christ, the spir- 
itual man, who was resurrected. It was Christ, the 
spiritual man, who appeared to His disciples in the 
upper chamber. It was Christ, the spiritual man, who 
appeared to Paul after the Resurrection and not Christ, 
the fleshly man. It is not the man conceived in lust 
and born of a woman that is resurrected to eternal 
life, but the Man made by God in His own image. As 
Paul puts it, "There is a natural body and a spiritual 
body," and it is the spiritual body, the spiritual man, 
which is resurrected and given eternal life. ' ' For in 
the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in 
marriage, but are as the Angels of God in heaven," 
(Matt. 22:30). Here Christ declares that flesh and 



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blood — the material man — is never resurrected, but the 
spiritual man whom God made in His image, 
is resurrected, and that the spiritual man when 
resurrected, that is, when separated from the 
physical man, is given spiritual life and light 
and the spiritual attributes of Angels; the 
spiritual man is resurrected unto eternal life with the 
spiritual body. "Then the same day at evening, being 
the first day of the week, when the doors were shut 
where the Disciples were assembled for fear of the 
Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and said unto 
them, Peace be unto you" (John 20:19). Here we 
have Christ appearing after the Resurrection in His 
spiritual body to His Disciples and manifesting Himself 
to them in His spiritual nature and in His spiritual 
body. It was the Christ, the Son of God, who possessed 
all the spiritual attributes of His Father, who was res- 
urrected, and liveth in His spiritual nature. It is the 
spiritual man whom God created in His own image, 
that is resurrected and liveth eternally. As Paul puts 
it, "It is sown in corruption, raised in corruption, it 
is sowed in mortality and raised in immortality." The 
body of the physical man is conceived in lust, born of 
a woman, dieth with the physical man and will pass 
away with the remainder of the material creation. 
The spiritual man created in God's image, liveth for- 
ever ; he is resurrected ; that is, is given life — spiritual 
life — eternal life and eternal light — a spiritual per- 
sonality, a spiritual consciousness and a spiritual body. 

The Atonement. 
"Being justified freely by his grace through the 
redemption that is in Christ Jesus" (Romans 3:24). 
"So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many ; 
unto them that look for him shall he appear the second 
time without sin unto salvation" (Heb. 9 :28) . "And 



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he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours 
only, but also for the sins of the whole world" (1 John 
2:2). "But I say unto you, I will not drink hence- 
forth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I 
drink it new with you in thy Father's kingdom' ' (Matt. 
26:29). "But into the second went the High Priest 
alone once every year, not without blood, which he 
offered for himself, and for the errors of the people; 
the Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the 
holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the 
first tabernacle was yet standing; which was a figure 
for the time then present in which were offered both 
gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did 
the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; 
which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers 
washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them 
until the time of reformation. But Christ being 
come an High Priest of good things to come, by a 
greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with 
hands, that is to say, not of this building; neither by 
the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood 
he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained 
eternal redemption for us" Heb. 9:7-12. Here we 
see that Christ, the spiritual man, with all the spirit- 
ual attributes of God, when He died in the flesh on 
the Cross, conquered the material man and made the 
material man dead unto the spiritual man; He drove 
the power of the man of flesh out of the conscience 
of the man of the Spirit. He destroyed the carnal 
mind and its influence over the spiritual mind. He 
forever separated the man of flesh from the man of 
Spirit; the carnal mind from the spiritual mind, death 
from life; matter from Spirit, and made the spiritual 
man at-one-ment with God ; that is, reconciled the spir- 
itual man with God and made him in perfect harmony 



240 The Truth About the Bible. 

with God's spiritual nature and God's kingdom. This 
atonement is personal to every child of God's whom 
God made in His own image; who applies it to him- 
self and takes the spiritual nature of Christ into his 
spiritual consciousness and spiritual mind and ex- 
cludes the lust of the material man and the power of 
the carnal mind from his spiritual consciousness, 
spiritual mind and spiritual nature. This is the 
Atonement. 

Conversion. 
The body is a temple in which dwelleth the Spirit 
of the man whom God made in His own image. This 
physical body or material temple must perish and 
after death the spiritual man will possess a spiritual 
body which will be the spiritual temple. The temple 
at Jerusalem was a figure of the spiritual temple. 
"Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this 
temple and in three days I will raise it up" (John 
2:19). Here Christ referred to His physical body and 
told them to destroy the physical body and in three 
days He would raise it and resurrect it a spiritual 
body, but the people did not understand Him; they 
thought He meant destroy the temple of Jerusalem 
and He would raise it up in three days. They could 
not understand that all the formalities and the offer- 
ings of the priest and the ceremonies of the Jewish 
religion were figures, and symbolic of spiritual truths 
and spiritual things. The people of today, and in all 
ages, have attempted to materialize spiritual things 
and to materialize God so as to appeal to their physi- 
cal senses and carnal mind. The Jews did it in their 
day — the world is doing it today. But God is Spirit 
and His kingdom is spiritual and His Church liveth 
in the consciousness of the spiritual man. "Know ye 
not that ye are the temple of God and that the Spirit 



The Immaculate Conception. 241 

of God dwelleth in you" (Cor. 1:3-16). "What? 
know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy 
Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye 
are not your own?" (1 Cor. 6:19). "And what 
agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for 
ye are the temple of the living God; as God has said, 
I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be 
their God, and they shall be my people" (2 Cor. 6: 
16). The natural body, which is a temple in which 
dwelleth the spiritual man, is imperfect and is at 
enmity with God. No human building is perfect. The 
Temple at Jerusalem — the master construction of the 
ages — as a figure and a symbol of Christ's body, the 
Temple of God's spiritual kingdom, was imperfect. 
So is the human man, conceived in lust, which is the 
temple in which dwelleth the Spirit of God, imper- 
fect. The Scripture teaches us to spiritually conquer 
and subdue this physical man and subject his lustful 
nature to the power of the spiritual man; and the 
carnal mind to the influence of the spiritual mind 
through Christ, the High Priest and spiritual perfec- 
tion ; which is a command to every child of God created 
in His own spiritual image to enter into his own spirit- 
ual consciousness and worship the living God, and by so 
doing, to conquer the material man with his lustful 
nature by the power of the Spirit. That is what Christ 
meant when He said, "The Kingdom of Heaven is 
within you." "Conversion" means changing from or 
turning from; that is, turning from the material man 
to the spiritual man, from the carnal mind to the spir- 
itual mind. Growing and developing spiritually within 
your own spiritual consciousness and thereby con- 
quering and subduing the physical man and his lust 
and carnal mind, is conversion and growing in grace. 
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242 The Truth About the Bible. 

body to the Spirit within the body. This spiritual 
growth of the spiritual man in spiritual consciousness 
and conquering and subduing the physical man with 
his lust and carnal mind, is a process of evolution; it 
is growing in grace and is never perfected as long- 
as the natural man is alive. As long as the spiritual 
man dwelleth in the material man conceived in lust, 
there is a conflict going on between the spiritual man 
and the material man; but the gradual and continual 
development of the spiritual man within his spiritual 
consciousness and the conquering and subduing of 
the physical man and the law of lust, the turning from 
the man of flesh with his power of death, to the man 
of Spirit with His power of life is conversion. 

Regeneration. 
"And Jesus said unto them, Verily, I say unto 
you, that ye which have followed me, in the regenera- 
tion when the Son of Man shall sit in the throne of 
his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judg- 
ing the twelve tribes of Israel" (Matt. 19:28.) 
"Which were born not of blood nor of the will of the 
flesh nor the will of man, but of God" (John 1:13). 
"Jesus answered and said unto him verily, verily, I 
say unto thee, except a man be born again he cannot 
see the kingdom of God" (John 3:3). "That which 
is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of 
the Spirit is Spirit" (John 3:6). Here we see that 
Christ recognizes and differentiates between the 
spiritual man made in God's image and the physical 
man conceived in lust and born of woman, and defines 
their natures; "Regeneration" means to recreate — to 
reproduce. Here Christ declares the man conceived 
in lust and born of woman cannot know or enter the 
kingdom of God, and that the spiritual man whom God 
made in His own image and who is manifested in 



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the flesh by the law of lust and takes into his spiritual 
consciousness the darkness and death of lust and the 
carnal mind of the physical man, must be destroyed 
in his physical nature and driven out of his spiritual 
consciousness; and this is the new birth — the spiritual 
birth — and it takes place in the spiritual consciousness 
of every child of God, whom He created in His own 
image, who personally applies the law of atonement 
to his own spiritual nature, when the dissolution be- 
tween the spiritual man and the physical man takes 
place. Then the spiritual man enters into a perfect 
spiritual state and is in perfect spiritual harmony 
with God's spiritual kingdom; and the power of the 
lust and the carnal mind of the physical man forever 
is lost and separated from the spiritual consciousness 
of the spiritual man. "Him that overcometh, will I 
make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go 
no more out; and I will write upon him the name of 
my God, and the name of the City of my God, which 
is New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of Heaven 
from my God; and I will write upon him my new 
name" (Rev. 3:12). Here we have the spiritual man 
made in God's image, redeemed from the power of the 
lust and the carnal mind of the physical man, who 
has entered into perfect harmony with God's spiritual 
kingdom, partaken of God's spiritual nature and 
clothed in the spiritual body and spiritual life. Here the 
child of God has been recreated in the power of the 
Spirit and has entered into the full possession of his 
spiritual temple, the spiritual body. This is Regen- 
eration. 

Baptism. 
Baptism is symbolic in its nature. It represents 
the death of the physical man and the life of the spir- 
itual man. It represents the death and burial of the 



244 The Truth About the Bible. 

physical man — the spiritual life and spiritual resur- 
rection of the spiritual man. We bury the physical 
body of the material man. The grave is the end of 
the physical man ; it represents death. So the baptism 
of the physical man by immersion in water, represents 
the death of the physical man ; and his burial and the 
coming up out of the water represents the ascension 
and life of the spiritual man. 'Then cometh Jesus 
from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of 
him. But John forbade him, saying, I have need to 
be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? And 
Jesus answered and said unto him, Suffer it to be so 
now; for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteous- 
ness. Then He suffered him. And Jesus, when he 
was baptized, went up straightway out of the water; 
and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he 
saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and 
lighting upon him. And, lo, a voice from Heaven, say- 
ing, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well 
pleased" (Matt 3:13-17). 

The baptism of Christ represented the death and 
the grave of the physical man ; coming out of the water 
and the Spirit of God descending, represents spiritual 
life for the spiritual man. There is no saving power 
in the form of baptism or in baptism itself, but it 
represents a spiritual truth. It represents the death 
of the material man and the life of the spiritual man. 
Christ died and went into the tomb physically, He 
lived and ascended into heaven spiritually. The ma- 
terial man conceived in lust must die ; the grave is his 
final home; death is his finality. The spiritual man 
made in God's image is immortal and must continue 
to live and as he partakes of the nature of the Christ, 
he will live in spiritual Light and spiritual Life. 
Christ was "buried" in baptism; that is, the water 



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was the grave for his physical body, representing the 
grave of the physical man at death ; and He arose from 
and out of the watery grave and the Spirit of God 
descended upon Him, representing spiritual life for 
the spiritual man as he separates his spiritual nature 
from the material man; and, finally, when the disso- 
lution comes between the physical and the spiritual 
man, the physical man goes to the grave, the spiritual 
man goes into spiritual light and spiritual life, into 
God's kingdom and God's presence. 

The Trinity. 
God is one God. "I am that I am," was His dec- 
laration to Moses, the Prophets and His children. 
Jehovah was the God of the Jews and Jehovah was 
the "I am that I am"; one God. Jehovah is a Spirit 
Universal Personal Spiritual Intelligence. He filleth all 
space and all time, He is Life, Light and eternal 
Truth. "Can any hide himself in secret places that 
I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill 
heaven and earth? saith the Lord" (Jer. 23:24). 
From Genesis to Revelations, God reveals Himself to 
His children as one God, a personal God, a Universal 
Personal Spiritual Intelligence. Christ never claimed 
to be God, but the Son of God; that is, He possessed 
all the spiritual attributes of His Father and that He 
was eternal Spirit and eternal Life and eternal Truth 
manifested in the flesh by the power of God, that is, 
by the power of the Spirit. God in expressing Him- 
self to His spiritual children becomes personal to each 
and every one of them as the Holy Spirit and Holy 
Ghost. It is God's power of expression to His spirit- 
ual children personally which is the Holy Spirit and 
Holy Ghost. The Holy Spirit and the Holy Ghost is 
God manifesting Himself personally to His spiritual 
children and not a separate and distinct personality. 



246 The Truth About the Bible. 

The idea of multiplicity of gods in one was adopted 
into the Christian system from the pagan religions. 
All the pagan religions had their multiplicity of 
gods and the adulteration of these pagan religions 
with their multiplicity of gods is the source of the 
Trinity of the Christian religion. The Bible nowhere 
teaches that God is three persons in one, but it does 
teach that His Son, the Christ, possessed all the spir- 
itual attributes of the Father and was Divine and that 
God does manifest Himself and express Himself per- 
sonally a spiritual Being to His spiritual children and 
is to them a personal spiritual Being. It is God's ex- 
pression as a spiritual Being personally to His spirit- 
ual children that constitutes the Holy Ghost. The 
Holy Ghost is God manifesting Himself and express- 
ing Himself as a spiritual personal Being to His spir- 
itual personal children. 

"God is Spirit and they that worship Him must 
worship him in Spirit and in truth" (John 3:4). "But 
the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the 
Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all 
things, and bring all things to your remembrance, 
whatsoever I have said unto you" (John 14:26). 
"Now the Lord is that Spirit; and where the Spirit 
of the Lord is, there is liberty" (Cor. 2:3-17). "If 
ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to 
your children; how much more shall your heavenly 
Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?" 
(Luke 11:13). The Holy Spirit and the Comforter 
here mentioned is God manifesting His spiritual and 
personal nature unto the spiritual and personal nature 
of His children. Everywhere in the Bible He is re- 
ferred to a Person, as a Spirit and as an individual 
single personality. "I am the Almighty God, walk 
before me, and be thou perfect" (Gen. 17:1). God is 



The Immaculate Conception. 247 

not a multiplicity of gods nor a multiplicity of per- 
sonalities united in one with different characters, 
attributes and personalities. But God is one God. 
He is "the I am that I am." "1 am God Almighty," say- 
eth the Lord. 

Christ never claimed to be God ; He claimed to be 
the Son of God and He was the Son of God. He was 
all that He claimed to be. He was the Son of God and 
possessed all the spiritual nature and spiritual attrib- 
utes of His Father. "No man has seen God at any 
time; the only begotten Son which is in the bosom of 
the Father, He hath declared him" (John 16). 

"And straightway he preached Christ in the 
synagogues, that he is the Son of God" (Acts 9:20). 
"And declared to be the Son of God with power, ac- 
cording to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection 
from the dead" (Rom. 1:4). "These things saith 
the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame 
of fire, and his feet are like fine brass" (Rev. 2:18). 
"All things are delivered unto me of my Father; and 
no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither 
knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he 
to whomsoever the Son will reveal him" (Matt. 11 : 
27). "And the angel answered and said unto her, 
The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power 
of the Highest shall overshadow thee; therefore also 
that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be 
called the Son of God" (Luke 1:35). Thus we see the 
Scripture treats Christ as the Son of God a perfect 
spiritual Being with all the spiritual attributes and 
perfect spiritual nature of His Father who sent Him; 
this is all Christ claimed. He claimed not to be God, 
but the Son of God and He was tried and crucified 
not for claiming to be God, but for claiming to be the 
Son of God. "And the Word was made flesh, and 



248 The Truth About the Bible. 

dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as 
of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and 
truth" (John 1:14). Here the inspired writer de- 
clares that Christ was the Son of the Father, full of 
grace and truth — that is, He possessed all the spirit- 
ual attributes and the perfect spiritual nature of God 
the Father. That is what John meant when he said, 
"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was 
with God and the Word was God. The same was in 
the beginning with God" (John 1:1, 2). That is, in 
the beginning the Word — Christ existed — and was 
with God and possessed all the spiritual nature, spir- 
itual attributes, spiritual life, spiritual light, and spir- 
itual perfection of God the Father. The same was in 
the beginning with God. In the beginning, for 
Spirit is eternal, and before the material creation, 
Christ the Son was with the Father and in perfect 
harmony with the Father's spiritual kingdom, spirit- 
ual laws, spiritual nature and possessed all the spir- 
itual attributes of God the Father. 

Christ was what He claimed to be, Divine, the Son 
of God. 

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his 
only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him 
should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God 
sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world ; 
but that the world through him might be saved" (John 
3 :16, 17) . "The Father loveth the Son, and hath given 
all things into his hand" (John 3:35, 36). Here we 
see that the Scripture treats Christ as the Son of God 
and a separate and distinct personality from the 
Father ; and that the Father committed all things into 
the hands of the Son. On the Cross Christ cried out, 
"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Here 
the Son treats the Father as a separate and distinct 



The Immaculate Conception. 249 

personality. Christ was God in that He possessed 
the spiritual nature and spiritual attributes and spir- 
itual mind of God, His Father. And He was the Son 
because He was begotten by the Father and existed 
with the Father before the material creation and from 
the beginning of all time. He was what the Father 
called Him, His Son, and He was what He claimed to 
be, Divine and the Son of God. 



CHAPTER XIX. 

How to Prevent Physical Weakness, Sickness 

and Death. 

The orthodox Jew who lived up to the Mosaic law 
needed no insane asylums and hospitals. He was 
taught by revelation that the lust and the carnal mind 
of the physical man meant physical weakness, sick- 
ness and death. To indulge the lust of the flesh, is 
not only to kill the spiritual life of the spiritual man, 
but to destroy the physical life of material man. The 
lust of the physical man is both physical and spiritual 
death. Thus the Mosaic law and the Prophets taught 
the Jews that to indulge in the carnal mind and the 
lust of the material man was to weaken the physical 
man and produce physical death. But the orthodox 
Jew under the Mosaic dispensation was taught to dif- 
ferentiate between the material man and the spiritual 
man and the nature of each. He was taught that to 
indulge the law of the flesh and the carnal mind of 
the material man was to destroy the human body, the 
mind, and to produce meital and physical weakness 
and spiritual death. This accounts for the fact that 
the orthodox Jews in the noonday of their glory as 
a race were the princes of the world morally, physi- 
cally, intellectually and spiritually. When the Jew 
confounded and confused the physical man with spir- 

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How to Prevent Sickness and Death. 251 

itual man, the physical birth with the spiritual birth, 
the carnal mind with the spiritual mind, God sounded 
aloud His protest in Israel through the voices of the 
Prophets. For this, sin of transgression God punished 
His people. He punishes today, and has in every age 
and will until the end of time, every spiritual child 
of His whom He created in His own image that con- 
fuses the physical man with the spiritual man and the 
carnal mind with the spiritual mind, and indulges the 
physical senses of the material man. The Jew, 
every time he transgressed the law that differentiates 
the physical man from the spiritual man, was punished 
by Jehovah. 

The children of men in all generations have been 
punished and will be punished by God for indulging 
the law of lust and the flesh. When man indulges 
the carnal mind and his lustful nature, he pays the 
penalty mentally and physically and spiritually. God's 
punishment of His people for transgressing this law 
is visible and tangible in that He punishes not only 
the physical man, but the spiritual man also. 

By indulging the law of lust, the life forces which 
produce life in the physical man are destroyed. A 
man is as strong physically as the generative power 
of his brain is to conduct the life current of God's 
life giving force over the nerve system into the ma- 
terial body. This life current to be effective, pro- 
ducing material life, has to be conducted over the 
nerve system. The brain and the nerve system are the 
means of co-ordination between the material body of 
physical man and the spiritual body of the spiritual 
man. They are the twilight zone between the material 
man and the spiritual man, between matter and Spirit ; 
by indulging in lustful thoughts and acts, the brain and 
the nervous system undergo shocks and transforma- 



252 The Truth About the Bible. 

nervous system undergoes shocks and transforma- 
tions which weakens and destroys the power of the 
brain to generate the vital current and send life giv- 
ing force over the nerve system, and weakens the 
nervous system and its capacity to carry the vital 
force into the physical body of the material man. 

By indulging the carnal mind the lust of the 
physical man, the mind, and the body of the physical 
man is weakened — sickness is produced and death is 
the end. 

Man-made theology, in attempting to spiritualize 
the natural birth and to make it holy, indorsed and 
encouraged the indulgence of the carnal mind and the 
lust of the physical man; with the result that Chris- 
tendom is filled with imbeciles and physical wrecks. 
And the orthodox theologian points to these 
afflicted with all kinds and nature of physical and men- 
tal diseases as God's punishment of man. Asylums 
are everywhere — sanitariums and hospitals are 
thick and erected throughout Christendom. And 
the orthodox theologian points to these institu- 
tions with pride as a product of Christianity — 
whereas, as a matter of fact, they are the product of 
indulging the lust of the flesh and the carnal mind. 
One generation hands down to the other generation 
and generation to generation mental weakness, physi- 
cal ills and diseases produced by indulging the carnal 
mind and the lust of the physical man, until suffer- 
ing and sorrow, torture and pain, both mentally and 
physically, rages throughout Christendom. 

This is the result of the fundamental error of 
man-made theology attempting to spiritualize the 
natural conception and birth of the physical man. 

Priestcraft and theologians teach that if the car- 
nal mind and the lust of the physical man, is united 



How to Prevent Sickness and Death. 253 

to the opposite sex by a priestly ceremony, that God 
sanctions the indulgence of the lust of the flesh and 
the carnal mind of the physical man. The physical 
man lives for lust and the church therefore, wishing 
to please his physical senses and gratify his carnal 
mind, has preached the doctrine, if the opposite sexes 
unite under priestly ceremonies, that God will bless 
the indulgence of their lust. 

This has been the crime of the church — both 
Catholic and Protestant. The Temple of Jerusalem 
represented the body of Christ. It was as near per- 
fect as the mind could make it. It was the wonder 
of the ages. The Spirit of the Son of God dwelt in His 
body and was manifested in the flesh. God was sup- 
posed to be in the Temple ever present, i. e., the Spirit 
of the Son of the living God was manifested in the 
flesh and the human body and was ever present in the 
fleshly body. Christ's material body was conceived 
without lust and therefore the Temple at Jerusalem in 
all its splendor was supposed to represent His body 
which possessed human attributes without lust. It 
was material and not spiritual and therefore was mor- 
tal and died on the Cross. The destruction of the 
Temple of Jerusalem — the material Temple — repre- 
sented the death of Christ's body on the Cross. The 
spiritual body of Christ, resurrected, was life and 
that is what the Bible means when it refers to the 
Temple of the New Jerusalem. The old Jerusalem 
and Temple were destroyed because they were mate- 
rial — so must the human body decay and pass away — 
but the New Jerusalem and the Temple thereof is 
spiritual and represents man's spiritual body and liv- 
eth forever. 

Christ's body as a material man was the temple 
of Christ — the spiritual man as the Son of God. Our 



254 The Truth About the Bible. 

human bodies conceived in lust are sinful, mortal and 
must die — yet each and every human body is a Tem- 
ple of God in that the spiritual man whom God created 
in His own image, dwelleth therein. When the spir- 
itual man lives the life of spiritual light and life and 
denies the physical senses of the material man, his 
lust and carnal mind, he is producing life; life within 
the material man which prevents sickness, physical 
weakness and prolongs the life of the material man. 
If the human family would only realize this truth and 
live up to it as taught in the Scriptures, in due course 
of time physical weakness, illness and sickness would 
be eliminated from the human body and man would 
live out his natural life and lie down and die when 
the machinery of the material man was worn out so 
that the vital current and life giving force could no 
longer generate life in the material man and send it 
over the nervous system — just as the child goes to 
sleep; material death would come as the sleep of the 
night. The suffering and the sorrow, the pains and 
the aches, the misery and the torture to which the 
human family is afflicted comes as a result of yield- 
ing to the law of lust and indulging the carnal mind 
which is death in its very nature. 

The priesthood, theologians of both of the Cath- 
olic and Protestant world have taught the human fam- 
ily that to indulge the lust of the flesh was spiritual 
and blessed by God and His Son, if only done under 
marriage ceremony, until they have reduced the hu- 
man family, wherever their false teachings have gone, 
to physical weakness, sickness, physical suffering of 
every nature and premature death. To indulge the 
carnal mind and the law of lust is death in its nature, 
regardless of the form or condition under which the 
indulgence takes place. Scripture teaches this truth. 



How to Prevent Sickness and Death. 255 

The Scripture recognizes marriage, but only as a hu- 
man institution and for the purpose of restraining the 
lust and carnal mind of the physical man. Marriage 
is a necessity as an institution with the human family 
to regulate morals, to care for the offspring and to 
preserve order in society and to restrain the lust of 
the physical man; and the Bible so recognizes it and 
treats it as a fleshly institution. 

By the erroneous teachings of the orthodox theo- 
logians, both of the Catholic and the Protestant world, 
millions upon millions of poor suffering humanity are 
in torture and physical pain, are suffering with physi- 
cal ills and weaknesses which they inherited from their 
ancestors of the generations which have passed, and 
those living will bequeath their physical weakness 
and suffering and ills to generations to come. 

The physical man must die as a matter of course ; 
he came from dust and unto dust he must return ; but 
if he were taught the truth, that the spiritual man 
made in God's image is Spirit, and that the physical 
man conceived in lust is death in his nature, and to 
indulge the lust of the physical man is to invite physi- 
cal weakness and disease into the human body and 
premature physical death, and would live the law of 
Spirit and Life and deny the lust of the physical man, 
he could live out his days in peace with physical 
strength, health and happiness and die at ease with- 
out suffering or pain. The trouble with the theologi- 
cal world is that its teachers teach too much error and 
advocate the erection of sanitariums and hospitals and 
asylums in which mental and physical wrecks, which 
have been produced as the result of their erroneous 
teachings, are to be kept as inmates while they pine 
away and die of suffering and disease. The human 
family needs more truth taught to them as to who 



256 The Truth About the Bible. 

the spiritual man is and as to who and what the ma- 
terial man is and fewer hospitals, sanitariums and 
asylums erected. Teach man that his body is the 
temple of the living God in which dwelleth the spir- 
itual man made in God's image and that this spiritual 
man must not indulge the lust of the physical man 
except for the propagation of the race, and in a few 
generations you will have eliminated sickness, physi- 
cal and mental weakness from man and restored the 
human family to a state of physical and mental health 
and strength. Teach man the truth that the spiritual 
man within will conquer the physical man witnout, 
and you will have taught him the law of health and 
life. "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou may- 
est prosper and be in health, even as thy soul pros- 
pered (3 John 2). God is saying to His children 
whom He created in His own image daily that He 
wishes them physical health, even as their souls pros- 
per spiritually — but to possess this physical health 
that the spiritual man, His child whom He created 
in His own image, must deny the lust of the material 
man who is at enmity with His spiritual kingdom." 
Be not wise in thine own eyes; fear the Lord and de- 
part from evil. It shall be health to thy navel and mar- 
row to thy bone." (Prov. 3:7, 8). Here God is tell- 
ing His children not to think that they are wise with 
their physical senses and eyes and that they can in- 
dulge the physical man and his lust without pain and 
suffering. "But fear the Lord and depart from 
evil." That is, deny the physical man, his lust and 
his carnal mind. "And it shall be health to thy navel 
and marrow to thy bones." That is, the Lord is telling 
His children, whom He created in His own image, 
to deny the lust of the physical man and his carnal 
mind, to live a life of Spirit and Truth and that they 



Hoiv to Prevent Sickness and Death. 257 

shall enjoy physical strength and health. 

"Know ye not ye are the temple of God and that 
the Spirit of God dwelleth within you" (Cor. 1 :3-16) . 
The child of God created in His image has no right to 
defile that temple by indulging the lust of the physi- 
cal man. He should light that temple with spiritual 
life and light and conquer the carnal mind and the 
lust of the physical man by the power of his spiritual 
life. To indulge in the passions and the lust of the 
natural man, is to invite darkness and death into that 
temple and to bequeath sickness, suffering, darkness 
and premature death to generations unborn. 

Oh, that the men, who assume to be the spiritual 
teachers of God's children, could and would under- 
stand this truth and teach it in its purity to God's 
children who are wandering in darkness and error; 
until mental and physical weakness and suffering 
would be driven out of the human body and forever 
destroyed as a part of the inheritance of the human 
family. 



CHAPTER XX. 



Heaven and Hell. 



Heaven and Hell are conditions. They are spir- 
itual states rather than places. They are not physi- 
cal and material — but immaterial and spiritual. The 
physical hell preached during the ages by the priest- 
craft and the theologians, had its origin in tne ma- 
terial mind of the physical man and the physical 
senses of the material man. The cause of its origin 
was selfishness and revenge. The physical man filled 
with hatred and malice wanted his enemies punished 
and in the carnal mind of the material man, he created 
a physical hell in which to burn the other fellow — his 
enemy; but not to go there himself. He likewise cre- 
ated a physical heaven in the imagination of his nat- 
ural mind where he could gratify his physical senses 
and the appetites of the physical man throughout 
eternity. 

This physical and material heaven and hell was 
gratifying to the physical senses and natural mind of 
the material man; and the priestcraft and theologians 
gave him what he wanted and desired for value re- 
ceived. But this is not the heaven and hell of the 
Bible. The heaven and hell of the Bible are realities, 
but immaterial. 

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Heaven and Hell. 259 

Heaven. 
Heaven is the dwelling place of God and God is 
everywhere. Heaven is the child whom God created in 
His own image, partaking of all the spiritual attrib- 
utes of God's spiritual kingdom and spiritual nature. 
Heaven is the child of God created in His image, re- 
deemed from the lustful nature and carnal mind of 
the physical man and this spiritual state is wherever 
God reigneth and rules; and God lives and rules 
throughout all space. "Hearken, thou to the suppli- 
cation of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when 
they shall pray towards this place; and hear thou in 
heaven thy dwelling place; and when thou hearest 
forgive" ( Kings 1:8-30). Here we are told that 
Heaven is the dwelling place of God; and God liveth 
and dwelleth in all space. Heaven is therefore a con- 
dition and not a place — a spiritual condition, and not 
a physical habitation. "Thus sayeth the Lord, The 
heaven is my throne, and the earth my footstool; 
where is the house that ye build unto me? and where 
is the place of my rest?" (Isaiah 66:1). Heaven is 
God's kingdom — spiritual kingdom — and not a mate- 
rial place. His throne is His spiritual Power, Light 
and Life, and not a material place in which He rules. 
From this throne (this source of Light and Life) 
He giveth Light and Life to His spiritual children. 
"After this manner, therefore, pray ye; our Father 
which art in Heaven, Hallowed by thy name" (Matt. 
6:9). Here the Master teaches us that Heaven is the 
dwelling place of God, and that such dwelling place 
fills all space and all time which God filleth with His 
Light, His Life and His Glory. For His spiritual 
children to enter into this spiritual kingdom, is 
Heaven. "Howbeit the most high dwelleth not in the 
temples made with hands, as sayeth the prophets, 



260 The Truth About the Bible. 

Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool; what 
house will ye build me? sayeth the Lord; or, what is 
the pdace of my rest? (Acts 7:48, 49). Here we are 
taught that God dwelleth not in temples builded by 
hands or in material things ; that the Temple at Jeru- 
salem was simply a shadow of reality, God's Temple 
is His spiritual kingdom and therein dwelleth and 
liveth His spiritual children. The spiritual state 
which creates Heaven for God's spiritual children is 
the absolute destruction and elimination from the 
spiritual nature of the spiritual man, the attributes of 
the material man, which the spiritual man took into 
his spiritual consciousness when conceived by the law 
of lust and while the spiritual man dwelt in the body 
of the material man. The elimination of the attrib- 
utes of the carnal mind and lust of the natural man 
from the consciousness of the spiritual man, is the 
casting out of devils, that is, casting out the lust and 
carnal mind of the natural man from the spiritual 
nature of the spiritual man ; and this is the Atonement. 
"And the Lord God said unto the serpent," Because 
thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle 
and every beast of the field; and upon thy belly shalt 
thou go and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy 
life ; and I will put enmity between thee and the woman 
and between thy seed and her seed and it shall bruise 
thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel" (Genesis 3: 
14, 15). Here "the serpent" represents the lust of the 
natural man and "his seed" represents the generation 
of the physical man ; the seed of the woman represents 
Christ, who was to be conceived without a natural 
father and without lust and was to be the High Priest 
of all of God's spiritual children — and, of course, like- 
wise represents the spiritual man. God said that He 
would put enmity between the seed of the serpent and 



Heaven and Hell. 261 

the seed of the woman; that is, He would put enmity 
between the natural man with his lust and carnal 
mind, and the spiritual man, whom He created in His 
own image; and the Christ who was to be conceived 
of a woman without lust was to be the High Priest of 
the spiritual man. That enmity has been going on 
ever since the first man and will go on through all 
time and through all eternity. The spiritual man 
whom God created in His own image and who takes 
into his spiritual consciousness the spiritual attrib- 
utes of the Christ by the law of the atonment, elimi- 
nates from his spiritual nature all the attributes of 
lust and the carnal nature of the natural man and 
enters into spiritual fellowship with the Father — he 
enters into Heaven. 

The spiritual man, who retains in his spiritual 
consciousness and spiritual nature the attributes and 
nature of the natural man, is not in fellowship with 
God's spiritual nature and kingdom — he is in Hell. 
He has not been saved by the law of the Atonement — 
the nature of the natural man has not been destroyed in 
and eliminated from his spiritual consciousness. Here 
we see that Heaven and Hell had their origin in the 
birth of the natural and spiritual man and that they 
are the opposite of each other in their nature, yet 
priestcraft and the theologians, both of the Catholic 
and the Protestant worlds, have through the ages, 
been teaching the people that marriage was holy and 
the natural birth spiritual, and thereby gratifying the 
taste, the desire and the lust of the natural man. 

Heaven and Hell are personal states. They are per- 
sonal to every child whom God has created. The re- 
moving from the soul the attributes of lust is the 
power of Christ and of the Atonement and every man 
must apply it personally for himself in order to enter 



262 The Truth About the Bible. 

heaven. No man nor priest can offer up sacrifice to 
save another. Christ made the sacrifice, paid the 
penalty for the law of lust, died unto the flesh and 
conquered the power of the natural man and destroyed 
the rule of the material man once for all when He died 
upon the Cross ; and every child of God, in order to en- 
ter into spiritual fellowship with Christ and the Father, 
must apply the power of Christ's spiritual triumph 
over the material man for himself and to his own 
spiritual consciousness. 

Heaven begins here. "Christ said: The King- 
dom of Heaven is within you/' As we take His spir- 
itual attributes into our spiritual consciousness and 
thereby eliminate from our spiritual natures the na- 
ture of the natural man and destroy the power of the 
natural man within our spiritual natures, we enter 
into the kingdom of heaven. The kingdom of heaven 
begins here and continues through all eternity to 
every child of God who takes of the Life of the Christ. 

The Jewish priesthood had to be perfect physi- 
cally — no cripple could be a priest under the Mosaic 
law. The perfect physical body required to be a priest 
under the Mosaic dispensation was a figure and sym- 
bol of a spiritual truth. The perfect physical body 
required in order to be a priest had no saving power 
within itself, but represented the perfect spiritual 
body of the Christ and the spiritual bodies of all of 
God's children who take of the spiritual nature of the 
Christ and enter into spiritual fellowship with God 
and the Christ in the life to come. The perfect physi- 
cal body required was a figure of what the spiritual 
body will be and represents every child of God who 
partakes of the spiritual nature of the Christ and in 
the resurrection will possess a spiritual body in full 

fellowship with God and His Son. Heaven is eternal 



Heaven and Hell. 263 

development spiritually and begins here and continues 
through all eternity. The spiritual child of God cre- 
ated in God's image cannot violate God's spiritual 
laws and take into his spiritual consciousness the 
nature of the natural man without paying the pen- 
alty. As the nature of the natural man enters, the 
life of the spiritual man is driven out. The law of 
spiritual compensation is just. The spiritual child of 
God cannot entertain the thoughts and nature of the 
natural man and grow spiritually and develop in the 
spiritual kingdom. The power of the Atonement will 
eliminate the nature of the natural man from the life 
of the spiritual man, but the child of God must apply 
the power of the Atonement with its saving influence 
to his personal spiritual nature. 

Heaven is spiritual Life and spiritual Light. 
Heaven is God's children whom He created in His own 
image entering into full fellowship with God and His 
spiritual nature and driving out from their spiritual 
natures the power of the natural man by the law and the 
influence of the Atonement. Christ died that the spir- 
itual man might live; and destroyed the power of the 
natural man over the life of the spiritual man and 
Heaven is the spiritual man applying personally this 
power of the Atonement to his spiritual nature and life 
— that is, spiritual light, spiritual life — this is Heaven. 

Heaven is the seed of the woman, spoken of in 
Genesis 3:15, destroying the power of the seed of the 
serpent mentioned in the same verse of Scripture in 
the spiritual consciousness of the spiritual man whom 
God created in His own image. The seed of the ser- 
pent mentioned in Genesis 3:15 being the lustful na- 
ture of the physical man who is conceived in lust, and 
the seed of the woman being the Christ who was con- 
ceived without a natural father and by His spiritual 



264 The Truth About the Bible. 

nature and power triumphed over the flesh and by- 
dying in His fleshly nature on the Cross atoned for 
the sin of the natural man, which is the seed of the 
serpent, and which darkened the spiritual light of the 
man whom God made in His own image. In this verse 
of Scripture, Genesis 3:15, the mystery of the dual 
creation is locked up. Its explanation is the key to 
the Bible and the plan of salvation. Heaven is the 
complete Life and reconciliation of the child of God 
whom He created in His own image — reconciliation 
and restoring this man whom God created in His own 
image back to full fellowship with God and God's 
kingdom by virtue of the Atonement, and the seed of 
the woman, the Christ destroying the seed of the ser- 
pent, the natural man, in the consciousness of the 
spiritual man. 

Hell. 
"Hell" means "hades" and "hades" means "the 
grave" and "the grave" means "death." The grave 
means death to the physical man ; it is where the phys- 
ical man rests when he returns to dust. Likewise, 
hell is the state, and not the place, of the 
spiritual man, when the Spirit leaves the body of the 
physical man. Hell is like Heaven — it is a state or a 
condition, rather than a place. In its nature, how- 
ever, this state or condition is the opposite of Heaven. 
The Spirit of the spiritual man is in a condition, when 
in hell, opposite to the spiritual man when in Heaven. 
The Spirit that is in hell has not had the carnal nature 
of the seed of the serpent destroyed by the power of 
the seed of the woman referred to in Genesis 3:15. 
The spiritual man in hell has within his spiritual con- 
sciousness the nature and the attributes of the seed of 
the serpent, which is the carnal man conceived by the 
law of lust, the power and nature of this seed of the 



Heaven and Hell. 265 

serpent, the carnal man, has not been destroyed in 
his spiritual consciousness by the power of the seed 
of the woman, that is, the Christ and his Atonement 
mentioned in Genesis 3:15. "Besides all this, be- 
tween us and you there is a great gulf fixed; so 
that they which would pass from hence to you cannot ; 
neither can they pass to us, that would come from 
thence" (Luke 16:26). Here, Lazarus was in one 
spiritual state and the rich man was in another spir- 
itual state. "And in Hell he lifted up his eyes, being 
in torment, and seeth Abraham afar off and Lazarus 
in his bosom" (Luke 16:23). Lazarus was in a state 
and condition of spiritual life; Abraham here being 
the father of the house of Israel, represents God's 
spiritual kingdom and Lazarus was in this spiritual 
kingdom, the seed of the serpent mentioned in Genesis 
3:15; i. e., the lust and nature of the natural man, 
had been destroyed in his spiritual consciousness by 
the seed of the woman — that is, by Christ's Atonement 
— his saving power. But the seed of the serpent — 
that is, the natural man — his carnal mind and lustful 
nature, still ruled and lived in the consciousness of 
the rich man ; this darkness and death of the material 
man had not been destroyed in the consciousness of 
the rich man by the seed of the woman — that is, by 
Christ and His Atonement. 

The cause of all the chanting of all of the priests 
of all religions of all ages is locked up in Genesis 3: 
15 — the war between the seed of the serpent and the 
seed of the woman — the conflict between the natural 
man conceived in lust and the spiritual man made in 
God's image and the Christ born without a natural 
father — who is the Chief Priest of the spiritual man. 
All the tears, sorrows and physical suffering of man 
is produced by the virtue of the truth as revealed in 



266 The Truth About the Bible. 

said verse of Scripture. All the tears of all the ages 
for spiritual Light is revealed in said passage of Scrip- 
ture. 

The mystery of the Bible is contained therein and 
the truth therein contained, when correctly inter- 
preted, explains the mystery of the Bible — God's reve- 
lation to man and the plan salvation ; explains Heaven 
and hell and their nature. 

"And death and hell were cast into a lake of fire. 
This is the second death" (Rev. 20:14). "Second 
death" here mentioned is spiritual death; it is hell. 
The first death is the death of the natural man; the 
second death is the death of the spiritual man — that 
is, the spiritual state and condition of the spiritual 
man who has not had the nature of the seed of 
the serpent destroyed in his spiritual consciousness 
by the seed of the woman, that is, by the atoning 
power of the Christ. 

This seed of the serpent is "The Dragon" John 
saw in Revelations, that is, the power of the natural 
man with his lustful nature and carnal mind ruling 
in the spiritual consciousness of the spiritual man who 
had not had the power of the seed of the serpent, the 
lust and carnal nature of the natural man, destroyed 
in his spiritual consciousness by the seed of the 
woman ; that is, by the Christ and His atoning power. 
We have this seed of the serpent in Genesis 3:15 — he 
is all through the Bible and he is "The Dragon" that 
John saw in his vision described in Revelations. He 
is the natural man with his lustful nature and carnal 
mind ruling in the consciousness of the spiritual man 
who has not been saved by the seed of the woman — 
by the Christ and His atoning power. 

Hell begins here in the consciousness of the spir- 
itual man and continues through all eternity unless 



Heaven and Hell. 267 

the seed of the serpent — the lust and carnal nature 
of the natural man — is destroyed in the consciousness 
of the spiritual man by the seed of the woman — by 
the Christ and His atoning power. In proportion as 
the spiritual man takes into his spiritual conscience 
the seed of the serpent — the lust and carnal nature 
of the natural man — he is going into hell. The law 
of the anti-spiritual nature of the seed of the serpent 
is just in its compensation — the more of the nature of 
the natural man the spiritual man takes into his spir- 
itual consciousness, the deeper he is in hell. Hell is 
darkness and spiritual death. 



CHAPTER XXL 



The Church. 



The term "church" is from the Greek word "Ky- 
riakon," meaning "belonging to the Lord"; and when 
applied to spiritual things in its original meaning, 
means "God's spiritual children who belong to Him 
spiritually — that is to say, the term church spiritually 
means all of God's spiritual children who have ap- 
plied the power of the Atonement to their spiritual 
beings and natures and who have had the carnal na- 
ture of the natural man destroyed in their spiritual 
consciousness and who therefore belong to God spir- 
itually. God's church is His spiritual kingdom and is 
composed of all His spiritual creatures who are recon- 
ciled to Him and who are in harmony with His spir- 
itual laws and spiritual nature; and His church ex- 
isted in the mind of God before the creation and from 
all eternity. The visible organization on earth, termed 
the church, is only a shadow of the real church. The 
real church cannot be organized by men; it is invisi- 
ble and exists in the spiritual nature of God's children. 

Only the spiritual man belongs to the Lord; the 
physical man has no part in God's church. The physi- 
cal man with his material senses cannot know God's 
church. The church is spiritual and the spiritual man 
made in God's image can only be of the church. The 

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The Church. 269 

physical man trying to know the church and God 
through the physical senses of the material man is 
idolatry. The Children of Israel were ever attempt- 
ing to materialize the church and to worship God 
through the physical senses. The priesthood of Israel, 
the Scribes and the Pharisees were ever attempting 
to materialize the church and to convert Israel into a 
material kingdom and to give unto the people a re- 
ligion of idolatry in order to gratify their desire to 
worship a material God through the physical senses 
of the material man. It was this idolatry of the 
natural man and the carnal mind of the Children of 
Israel that the Prophets were ever proclaiming 
against, and calling upon the children of Israel to 
return to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and 
to worship God a Spirit with their spiritual natures 
and spiritual minds. All through the ages, the ma- 
terial man has attempted to materialize God. The 
natural man, the seed of the serpent, has said to the 
spiritual man, "Worship my god through thy physi- 
cal senses" — the natural man has ever said to the 
spiritual man, "Worship my god through matter, 
know him through thy physical senses, worship 
him." This is the seed of the serpent, the carnal na- 
ture of the natural man, destroying the spiritual 
nature of the spiritual man in his spiritual conscious- 
ness. It is the power of the devil, the natural man, 
fighting against God's spiritual kingdom and attempt- 
ing to destroy the spiritual life of the spiritual man 
made in God's image. 

This was the devil's temptation of Christ and 
Christ said unto him, "Get behind me, Satan, for it is 
written that you shalt worship the Lord thy God 
only/' 



270 The Truth About the Bible. 

God's church existed before Abraham, Isaac and 
Jacob. It existed in the conscience of His spiritual 
children from the Creation. He said to Abraham, 
"I will make thy seed as the stars of the heavens," 
and wherever Abraham's seed are, God's spiritual 
children — the church — is. His church is written in the 
innate mind and conscience of His children and all 
who apply the law of the Atonement to destroying 
the seed of the serpent — the natural man — are mem- 
bers of His Church. You might destroy the Bible 
and His church would still exist. The Bible as a verbal 
revelation only lightens up the Spiritual light and life 
existing in the innate conscience and mind of God's chil- 
dren — the spiritual man made in His image. His 
revelation was made to the innate mind and con- 
science of the spiritual man and His saving power 
manifested to the spiritual man before there was any 
Bible; before God ever revealed Himself to man in a 
verbal revelation, as in the Bible He revealed Himself 
in His spiritual nature to the innate mind and con- 
science of His spiritual children whom He created in 
His own image. 

He reveals Himself and has revealed Himself to 
the innate mind conscience and spiritual nature of 
every child that He ever created in His own image 
and the saving power of the Atonement was a reality 
from all eternity and before the Creation and every 
child whom God created in His image who has ap- 
plied the Atonement as a saving power to destroying 
the carnal nature of the natural man in the conscious- 
ness of the spiritual man, is of God's kingdom he is 
of God's Church; he belongs to God. 

God never left His Church to poor, mortal, erring 
man with power to control it and to own it. The 
Church is God's and Christ is at the head of the 



The Church. 271 

Church, and no poor mortal man or set of men have 
any intervening power between Christ the Head of 
the Church and God's spiritual children. Salvation is 
a personal matter and every child of God has access 
to the Chief of God's Church — the Christ and His 
saving power. Being a member of the visible church 
organized on earth by men, does not save — it is only 
a shadow of the reality — a church organization can- 
not save, but by having the carnal man destroyed in 
the spiritual man, by the power of the Atonement you 
are saved; you belong to God, you are of the Church. 
You are of the Church and a member of God's Church 
because you are saved by the power of the Atonement 
rather than being saved because you are a member 
of the visible church upon earth organized by man. 

Christ told the disciples, "Go preach the gospel, 
beginning in Jerusalem first." Jerusalem was the 
center of the Jewish nation. The Jewish nation was 
a theocracy, meaning, of course, "a nation or a people 
ruled and governed by the Lord" — that is, that God 
lived, dwelt within them as a people and directed 
them. Jerusalem was the heart, the center — the Tem- 
ple in Jerusalem was the figure of Christ's body as 
the coming King. All this was symbolical of a spirit- 
ual reality, meaning God dwelling within man's spir- 
itual nature and his material body being the Temple 
in which the Spirit dwells and after death he will 
have a spiritual body. Jerusalem was destroyed, but 
the Bible teaches that there is a New Jerusalem, a 
spiritual Jerusalem. Christ told the Jews to destroy 
this temple and in three days He would raise it up 
again, meaning, of course, His physical body which 
the Temple was symbolical of — and that He would 
rise in the glory of His spiritual body. 

When He told His Disciples to go preach the gos- 



272 The Truth About the Bible. 

pel, beginning in Jerusalem, He meant, of course, be- 
ginning with their own spiritual natures first; that is, 
to get spiritual life and light themselves and then go 
preach it to the world. Christ thereby declared that 
His church was a spiritual institution only to be 
known and realized by the spiritual man and that the 
material man has no part in His church and His king- 
dom. "He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I 
am? and Simon Peter answered and said, Thou 
art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus 
answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon 
Barjona; for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto 
thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say 
unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I 
will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not 
prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys 
of the kingdom of heaven, and whatsoever thou shall 
bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatso- 
ever thou shall loose on earth shall be loosed in 
heaven" (Matt. 16:15-19). Here Christ declares that 
He is the Rock upon which He will build His Church 
and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. It is 
Christ upon whom He is going to build His Church — 
upon Himself as the Head of the Church, and not upon 
Peter, as the Catholic world has construed it. The 
word "Petra" means "rock" in Greek, and the word 
"Peter" is derived from Petra, and Christ said to 
Peter, "They said that I am the Son of the living God, 
and others say that I am John the Baptist, and others 
say that I am one of the Prophets, but whom do you say 
I am Peter. And Simon Peter answered and 
said thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God, and 
Jesus said unto him, Flesh and blood hath not revealed 
it unto thee, but my Father which is in Heaven; and 
I say unto thee thou art Peter, and upon this rock I 



The Church. 273 

will build my Church and the gates of hell shall not 
prevail against it, and I will give unto thee the keys 
of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatsoever thou shall 
bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven, and whatso- 
ever thou shall loose on earth shall be loosed in 
Heaven." Christ did not tell Peter here that He was 
going to build His Church on Peter the Rock, but that 
He was going to build His Church on Christ, the Rock. 
Peter said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living 
God," and Christ said upon this Rock (that is, the 
Rock that I am the Christ, the Son of the living God) 
I will build my Church and the gates of hell shall 
not prevail against it. That is to say, "I am the Christ, 
perfect Spirit, possessing all the attributes of My 
Father who sent Me, and upon this Rock, the power 
of the eternal Spirit and of My Father who sent Me, 
who is Spirit — I will build My Church, which is Spirit, 
and the gates of hell — the power of the carnal mind, 
and the natural man, with his lust — shall not prevail 
against it; that the lust of the carnal man and the 
material man shall not prevail against My Church, 
which is spiritual, and which I will build on My own 
spiritual nature which possesses all the spiritual at- 
tributes of the Father who sent Me. And unto you, 
Peter, who has manifested your faith in Me as the 
Son of the living God, I will give unto you the keys 
to the Kingdom of Heaven that you may unlock the 
doors of your own spiritual nature and enter into full 
fellowship of spiritual life; and whatsoever you bind 
of your spiritual nature here shall be bound in Heaven 
and whatsoever you shall loose here shall be loosed 
in Heaven." That is to say, "Unto you, Peter, by vir- 
tue of My spiritual power as the Son of the living 
God and upon your manifestation of faith in My Di- 
vinity, I will give you power to grow in spiritual Life 



274 The Truth About the Bible. 

and Light and in proportion as you exercise your spir- 
itual nature, you shall grow in spiritual Light and 
Life and in proportion as you deny your spiritual na- 
ture and yield to the power of the natural man and his 
carnal mind you will be denied spiritual Light and 
Life." 

And He gives unto every child of God made in 
God's image — the same keys to the Kingdom of 
Heaven that He gave Peter. Christ never said nor 
ever intended to say unto poor mortal Peter that He 
would build His Church upon Peter and would give 
Peter and his successors the keys of Heaven to lock 
the doors against God's other children whom He cre- 
ated in His image. He never made Peter the keeper of 
the conscience and souls of His children with the 
power to exclude them from the Kingdom of Heaven. 
Christ, the Head of the Church, governs His own 
Church and spiritual kingdom as the Son of the liv- 
ing God. "From the end of the earth will I cry unto 
thee, when my heart is overwhelmed; lead me to the 
Rock that is higher than I." (Psalm 61:2). "Bow 
down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily; be thou 
my strong Rock, for an house of defense to save me" 
(Psalm 31:2). All through the Bible the Prophets 
and the Psalmist referred to the Christ who was to 
come as the Rock, and it was upon this eternal Rock 
of Ages, the spiritual Son of the spiritual Father, 
whom He declared He would build His Church upon 
and the gates of hell should not prevail against it — that 
is to say, He declared His church is spiritual; that 
He erected it upon Himself and His spiritual nature 
as the Son of the living God and that the lust and 
carnal mind of the natural man shall not prevail 
against it. 

The real meaning of this passage of Scripture 



The Church. 275 

is just the opposite from what the Catholic world has 
construed it to mean in order to establish a Monarch- 
ial system of Church government and a Priesthood 
claiming the power to forgive and retain sins. 

The Early Church, in form of Church Govern- 
ment, was a pure Democracy. Each Church was a 
separate and distinct governing body. The Disciples 
of the Christian Religion were poor and humble and 
they were persecuted by the carnal mind and the 
natural man of the kings, rulers and the men of power 
of their day. They collected in humble places and in 
secret quarters to worship and organize churches and 
owned their property jointly and in common, as the 
Scripture plainly sets out and teaches as well as secu- 
lar history. John in Revelations refers to "The 
Churches" in Asia, and not to the "Church/' "I, Jesus, 
have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things 
in the Churches" (Rev. 22:16). "The Churches of 
Christ salute you" (Rom. 16:16). The Apostles ad- 
dressed their letters to the Churches at Rome, Corinth, 
Ephesus, and not to a Monarchial official Church. 
The early Church Fathers, during the first century of 
the Christian era likewise addressed their communi- 
cations to the Churches, for the primitive Church was 
a pure Democracy and each Church was a separate 
and distinct organization, with their local Elders ov 
Pastors whom they selected as their spiritual leaders 
and overseers. The term "Bishop," which means over- 
seer, and "Pastor," "Elder," "Priest," "Presbyterer" 
are synonymous and in the early Christian Church, 
meant one and the same thing ; that is, the one who was 
selected and set apart by the Church as the spiritual 
leader and overseer of the flock and local Church. 
Paul ordained Elders for the local churches wherever 
he established them and charged them to be "Faith- 



276 The Truth About the Bible. 

ful Overseers," i. e., to be faithful in Spiritual things 
to the body of Christians who had selected them and 
set them apart as their spiritual leaders. The term 
"elders" means older and in spiritual things meant, of 
course, one who was older in spiritual matters and who 
was rich in the power of the Spirit — and for this reason 
he was selected as the spiritual leader and overseer 
of the local church. The Jews had their Elders in 
spiritual things and in the early Christian era, the 
Elder was the Pastor of the local Christian Church — 
and was the leader in spiritual things of the organiza- 
tion to which he belonged. 

But these local Churches began to send out mis- 
sionaries under the supervision of the Church and the 
pastor who remained in charge of the Church assumed 
leadership over the home Church and the missionary 
sent out, and by degrees and the continual increase 
of authority, the pastor who remained in charge of 
the home church became known as the "Bishop" or 
Chief Pastor. These Chief Pastors by degrees as- 
sumed more and more authority and finally began to 
meet in conclaves, or councils, to legislate, to govern 
the Churches — each Chief Pastor assuming control 
and jurisdiction over his territory or "See." Then 
they created "Arch-Bishops" to have jurisdiction over 
a certain number of the Bishops and thus by degrees 
a system of laws and regulations was worked out 
to govern the Churches. When these conclaves, or 
councils of the bishops met they had to have a presid- 
ing officer or chief. 

Rome being the center of the world at that time, 
the Bishop of Rome, of course, had the most impor- 
tant territory or jurisdiction, and he was selected as 
the Chief and as such developed into the "Pope," or 
the chief presiding officer of the monarchial system 



The Church. 211 

of man-made government to regulate and to govern 
the Churches. When the Emperors of Rome made the 
Christian religion the State religion, the State and the 
Church became united and when the Roman empire 
fell, the Pope was the most important factor and he 
became both Emperor and Pope; that is, final au- 
thority in both Church and State, and the system of 
Church government was patented after the Roman 
Empire ; the Pope taking the place of the Emperor and 
the Cardinals taking the place of the Roman Senate. 
In the days of the Roman Empire, the Emperor was 
selected from the Senate by the Senate, so the Pope 
is elected from the College of Cardinals and by the 
Cardinals. The Roman Empire was founded on a 
military system of government — that those in au- 
thority must be obeyed, was the established rule. The 
Roman Catholic Church is patented after the same 
system. When the Roman Church had thus systema- 
tized the forms of Church government, they brought 
over the old Mosaic rites and formalities, hence the 
Roman Catholic Church united in its system the for- 
malities of the Mosaic dispensation with the pagan 
religions of Rome, the State government of Rome and 
the Christian system; as an institution, it is the com- 
umation of all. 

It has possessed devout followers and done a 
great deal of good as well as a great deal of harm. 
It has had good Popes and bad Popes — good priests 
and bad priests — good men and bad men — who be- 
lieved in it as an institution; but as an institution 
Christ never established it while on earth. He never 
created an Arch-Bishop — a Cardinal or a Pope. His 
early Church was a pure Democracy and was founded 
upon spiritual life and personal faith in Christ as its 
Head. 



278 The Truth About the Bible. 

The Catholic Church claims Apostolic succession 
— that is, each Bishop is an Apostle, and the Apostle- 
ship has come down from the time of Christ from 
one Bishop to the other in succession by virtue of the 
ordination of one Bishop by another Bishop. There 
was no such a thing as a Bishop, in the sense ^ow used 
in the Catholic Church and the Protestant Churches, 
in the early Church. When the Catholic Church be- 
came so powerful and corrupt in material and state 
affairs in the sixteenth century, there was a protest 
and the various branches of the Protestant Churches 
that have Bishops, grew out of that reformation. But 
during all the Dark Ages, there was a body here and 
there that held on to the simple Democracy and faith 
of the early Church and worshiped their God in their 
humble quarters in Spirit and truth wherever they 
gathered and all the persecutions of the Roman Em- 
perors and the Popes who succeeded to their throne 
could not destroy these humble followers of the Christ. 

The term "Apostle" is from the Greek wor^ 
"Apostolis," and means "one sent forth," or a met 
senger. The early Apostles whom Christ sent fortYt 
to preach His gospel were His messengers and He has 
been sending His spiritual messengers whom He calls 
and inspires by power of the Spirit to preach His gos- 
pel during all the ages and will unto the end of time. 
Moses and the Prophets were His Messengers. 

There were other Apostles, besides the twelve 
whom Christ called around Him personally, as His 
witnesses while on earth, Paul was called to oe an 
Apostle after Christ left this earth — that is, to be a 
messenger for Christ. "Paul, called to be an Anostle 
of Jesus Christ through the will of God, Rtid Sos- 
thenes, our brother, unto the Church of God which is 
at Corinth" (1 Cor. 1 :1, 2) . 



The Church. 279 

Here we have declared that Paul was called to 
be an Apostle after Christ left this earth; that is, 
called to be a spiritual messenger for Christ. And 
Christ is daily calling men to be spiritual messengers 
for Him — that is, to be Apostles — and that, too, with- 
out intervention of any man-made system of Church 
government or man-made authority. 

In the Primitive Church the Minister or local 
pastor of the local Church was called Apostle — that 
is, a spiritual messenger for Christ. "Salute And- 
ronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and fellow prisoners, 
who are of note among the Apostles, and who were in 
Christ before me" (Rom. 16:7). Here we observe 
that in a Primitive Church the Elder, or spiritual 
leader, of a local Church was an Apostle; that he was 
a spiritual messenger for Christ. 

Christ Himself was an Apostle in that He was 
the Father's Messenger sent to the spiritual children 
of the Father's, "Wherefore, Holy Brethren, partak- 
ers of the Heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and 
High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus. (Heb. 
3:1). Here we observe that Christ was the Great 
Apostle, the Chief Priest, the Son of God, the Spirit- 
ual Messenger of the Father sent to this earth to His 
spiritual children. And we observe too that here 
"Priesthood" means spiritual power, Life and Light 
and that "Apostle" means Spiritual Messenger. Every 
child of God is a Priest and an Apostle and possesses 
spiritual Life and is a spiritual messenger for the 
Son whom the Father sent. 

Christ said unto Peter, "Flesh and blood hath not 
revealed it unto you" — that is, that He, The Christ, 
was the Son of the living God but that it was Spirit 
that had revealed it unto Peter that Christ was the 
Son of the living God; this same Spirit makes every 



280 The Truth About the Bible. 

child of God whom He made in His image and who 
is applying the power of the Atonement to his per- 
sonal spiritual nature, a Priest and an Apostle — a 
spiritual child and a spiritual messenger. 

The natural man born of lust could not reveal it 
unto Peter that Christ was the Son of the living God ; 
only the spiritual nature of Peter could know this 
spiritual truth; only the spiritual man can know 
Christ as the Son of the living God — that is, only the 
spiritual man can know Christ the Son with all the 
spiritual attributes of the Father who is the Spirit. 

The Catholic Church tries to reach the Spirit and 
spiritual things through formalities and rites and 
ceremonies and by this means appeal to the physical 
senses of the natural man. This has been the secret 
why it has held such a grip upon its followers. The 
Protestant Church attempts to reach man through 
the nervous system and emotion. By appealing to his 
emotions and working up his nervous system, the 
Protestant church of modern times with its material- 
ism appeals to the natural man through the physical 
senses. 

Both the Catholic Church and the materialism of 
the Protestant world are in error. The spiritual man 
cannot be reached through the physical senses of the 
natural man. The spiritual man must be reached 
through the spiritual senses and he must know God 
through his spiritual senses. 

Prayer is spiritual desire, meditations and com- 
munion with God and not formalities ceremonies and 
emotions of the natural man. By spiritual prayer, 
tnat is, silent spiritual desires, meditation and com- 
mion, the spiritual man can know God; but the 
natural man, through the natural senses and the car- 
nal mind, cannot know God. 



The Church. 281 

It was the natural man who made marriage a 
sacrament of the Church. The natural man lives lor 
lust and the carnal mind. It was for the sins of the 
natural birth and the lust of the physical man that the 
Altar was erected to offer sacrifices upon, for with- 
out the sin of the conception and birth of the natural 
man there would have been no need of an Altar and 
a Sacrifice. In the Adam man, all died, likewise in 
the Christ man all were made alive — that is to say, 
by the spiritual man being manifested in the flesh 
by the law of lust he partook of death, and by Christ's 
power of Atonement, He destroyed by His sacrifice 
the power of the natural man and death in the spirit- 
ual man, for all who personally avail themselves spir- 
itually of the power of the Atonement. The very 
purpose for which the Aicar was erected has been 
perverted by the physical man. The Altar was erect- 
ed to offer up sacrifices for the sins of natural con- 
ception and birth and the material man has used it to 
consecrate marriage and the natural conception and 
birth. The Church should teach that marriage is 
natural and not spiritual and that marriage relations 
are not to indulge the lust of the flesh, but only to re- 
produce the race; and the children should be taught 
by their natural parents the difference between the 
natural man and the spiritual man and what nature is 
and the truth as to spiritual things. 

The Scriptures teach the truth as to the natural 
and the spiritual man and the church should teach 
the truth as contained in Holy Writ, God's children 
have no right to deny His Word in their teachings or 
lives. 

The church on earth is a mere shadow of the 
reality of the real Church but it should be true to the 
real. And He said unto them, "With desire I have 



282 The Truth About the Bible. 

desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer; 
for I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, 
until it be fulfilled in the Kingdom of God. And he 
took the cup, and gave thanks, and he said, Take this, 
and divide it among yourselves; For I say unto you, 
I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the 
Kingdom of God shall come. And he took the bread, 
and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, 
saying, This is my body which is given for you; this 
do in remembrance of me. Likewise also the cup 
after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament 
in my blood, which is shed for you" (Luke 22:15-20). 
Here Christ administered His Sacrament to His Apos- 
tles. It was the Passover. The blood placed on the 
post by the Children of Israel as they fled from bond- 
age, represented the death of the physical man and 
the freeing of the spiritual man from the bondage 
of the natural man and was symbolical of the final 
Passover and the Crucifixion of the Christ when He 
would atone for the sins of the lust of the natural con- 
ception and birth of the natural man and destroy his 
power within the conscience of the spiritual man. 
"I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the 
Kingdom of God shall come" — Christ meant to say 
here that He would not drink of the full spiritual fruit 
of His redeeming power until Spirit should triumph 
over matter and Life over death on the Cross and the 
Atonement should be fulfilled and His Father's spir- 
itual Kingdom should be a complete reality to every 
child of God who avails himself personally of the 
power of the Atonement. He tells them to do this in 
remembrance of Him, that is, to administer His com- 
munion in remembrance of the shedding of His blood 
and the breaking of His Body, in that the shedding 
of His blood and the breaking of His Body represents 



The Church. 283 

the death of the natural man with his carnal mind 
and lustful nature who is at enmity with the spiritual 
man and is death to the spiritual man. Christ de- 
clares that His body is broken and His blood is shed 
as the final Passover, which is freedom to the spirit- 
ual man and death to the physical man. "This do in 
remembrance of Me." Daily call into your spiritual 
conscience my Life as Life to you; that is, what He 
means when He says, "Do this is remembrance of 
Me." "I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until 
the Kingdom of God shall come," that is, "I will not eat 
of it in the spiritual kingdom until the power of the 
flesh is destroyed." 

The church on earth is the shadow and the be- 
ginning of the spiritual reality which will last and 
live through eternity. 



CHAPTER XXII. 

The Conclusion and the Church Triumphant. 

In Genesis we have the Serpent; in Revelations 
we have the Dragon. The Dragon in Revelations is 
the same as the Serpent in the third chapter of Gen- 
esis. The Serpent and the Dragon are the lust of the 
carnal man; and the natural man is the seed of the 
Serpent; and Christ born without a natural father 
is the seed of the woman; and all of God's spiritual 
children, i. e., the spiritual man, partake of the 
Christ's nature. 

We have this dual nature in the Garden of Eden 
— the natural and the spiritual man. We have the 
same dual existence in Revelations — the natural and 
the spiritual man. This dual man is all through the 
Bible from Genesis to Revelations. The seed of the 
Serpent and the seed of the woman spoken of in Gen- 
esis 3:15 are the keys that unlock Holy Writ. 

The natural man represents all that is contrary 
to the spiritual man — he is the Devil and the Serpent 
mentioned in Genesis 3:1. The spiritual man is God's 
child made in His own image and Christ is His Chief 
Priest, and this natural man and spiritual man are 
the seed of the Serpent and the seed woman mentioned 
in Genesis 3:15 — and the war between this natural 
man and spiritual man and the conflict of their na- 
tures is the truth of the Revelation of God's Word. 

"And there appeared another wonder in heaven; 
and hebond a great red Dragon, having seven 

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The Conclusion. 285 

heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon 
his heads. And his tail drew the third part of 
the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth; 
and the Dragon stood before the woman which was 
ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon 
as it was born. And she brought forth a man child, 
who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron ; and her 
child was caught up unto God, and to his throne" 
(Rev. 12:3-5). The Dragon here is the Serpent of 
Genesis 3:1 — the natural man (the Devil) with all of 
his lust and carnal mind which is in conflict with 
every element of God's spiritual nature and kingdom; 
the woman was the mother of Christ and the Child was 
the Christ who represents every element of God's spir- 
itual nature and every truth of His spiritual kingdom. 
This Dragon, the natural man, the Devil, was ready 
and is ever ready to destroy the power of the Christ 
and to destroy the spiritual Light and Life of the spir- 
itual man whom God made in His image. 

In the twelfth and thirteenth chapters of Rev- 
elations, John describes this Serpent — this natural 
man — the Devil; how he fought to destroy the spirit- 
ual man; he describes the mighty war between the 
natural and the spiritual man. "And the great Dragon 
was cast out: that old Serpent, called the Devil 
and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world; he was 
cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out 
with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heav- 
en, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the 
kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for 
the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which ac- 
cused them before our God day and night" (Rev. 
12:9-10). Here John tells us that the natural man 
with his carnal mind is finally destroyed within the 
consciousness and spiritual nature of the spiritual 



286 The Truth About the Bible. 

man and is cast out from the spiritual nature and the 
spiritual consciousness of the spiritual man by the 
saving and atoning power of The Christ. 

"These shall have one mind and shall give their 
power and strength unto the beast" (Rev. 17:13). 
Here John in the 17th chapter of Revelations narrates 
with great force and describes with marvelous ef- 
fect the nature of the natural man and his carnal 
mind with its fruits; lust, abomination, adultery, 
fornication, murder and every element and nature 
which is contrary to God's nature and His kingdom. 
He compares ancient Babylon with all of her sin and 
wickedness to the harlot woman and the abominations 
of the earth. Here we have the sexual passion of the 
woman, as in Genesis, representing the moving force 
of the carnal mind of the natural man. The lust of 
the flesh here as in Genesis represents all of the ele- 
ments of the animal creation which are contrary to 
God's spiritual kingdom. John says, "All of these 
elements of the natural man, lust, adultery, fornica- 
tion and murder have one mind and shall give their 
strength unto the beast." "The beast," of course, is 
the natural man. "These shall make war with the 
Lamb and the Lamb shall overcome them; for he is 
Lord of lords and King of kings, and they that are 
with him are called, and chosen, and faithful" (Rev. 
17:14). Here the Lamb, of course, is Christ, who as 
the Chief Priest of God's spiritual children has over- 
come the abominations of the natural man and de- 
stroyed the natural man and his carnal mind within 
the spiritual nature and spiritual consciousness of 
God's spiritual children by the power of the Atone- 
ment. "And I saw the v/oman drunken with the 
blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs 
of Jesus" (Rev. 17:6). 



The Conclusion. 287 

Of course, the woman here represents the nat- 
ural man with all his power of lust, malice, hatred 
and murder. She represents everything of the ma- 
terial and physical universe which is contrary to God's 
spiritual nature and spiritual universe. 

John describes with great effect, power and force 
how the natural man, with his lust and carnal mind, 
has fought from the beginning of time and will until the 
end of time with the spiritual man, in the 17th and 18th 
chapters of Revelations, and in the 19th, 20th, 21st and 
22nd he tells us how the spiritual man through the aton- 
ing power of the Lamb triumphs over the natural man. 
He likewise describes how all who have not had the 
lustful nature and carnal mind of the natural m.»r. de- 
stroyed within their spiritual consciousness by the 
power of the Atonement are cast into outer darkness ; 
that is, hell; it is the spiritual man cast out from the 
spiritual presence of his Maker — and who partakes of 
the nature of the natural man — which is contrary to 
God's spiritual nature. He describes with great glory 
how all who avail themselves of the Atonement and 
have the mind of the natural man destroyed within 
their spiritual consciousness shall live with God. 

"And death and hell were cast into a lake of fire. 
This is the second death and whosoever was not found 
written in the book of life was cast into the lake of 
fire" (Rev. 12:14-15). Of course, this is spiritual 
death — this is hell — and those who had not had their 
names written in the Book of Life are God's children 
who lived for the natural man with his lust and carnal 
mind dominating their lives and prevailing in their 
spiritual consciousness and had not had the nature of 
the natural man destroyed in their spiritual natures by 
the power of the Atonement. 



288 The Truth About the Bible. 

"And I John saw the Holy City, the New Jerus- 
alem, coming down from God out of heaven prepared 
as a bride adorned for her husband.'' Here, John used 
the law of lust between the sexes — the most consuming 
and binding tie of the natural creation — to illustrate 
Christ's love in the spiritual world for the Redeemed. 
The New Jerusalem had no Temple therein — it is not 
material but spiritual. "And I saw no temple therein 
for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the Tem- 
ple of it." Here the material creation had passed 
away and Spirit had triumphed over matter — life over 
death — and God and His Son and the Redeemed are the 
New Jerusalem — the City of Spirit, Light and Life. 

In Rev. 22 :2 the Tree of Life is described. It is 
the same Tree of Life that was in the Garden of Eden, 
but now the Flaming Sword which turned every way, as 
we are told in Genesis, to keep man from partaking of 
the Tree of Life after he had yielded to the law of lust 
and taken into his spiritual nature the mind of the car- 
nal man, is removed that he may partake of the Tree 
of Life. This Flaming Sword which was the lust and 
the carnal mind of the natural man in the spiritual 
consciousness of the spiritual man after he had yielded 
to the law of lust, is now destroyed by the power of the 
Atonement ; and the redeemed may partake of the Tree 
of Life. 

John concludes the description of the Holy City 
and the triumph of Spirit over matter and life over 
death with these words: "And there shall be no night 
there," meaning, of course, that the material creation, 
— the physical man and his carnal mind and lust — 
represents night and that Spirit represents day; and, 
that the material creation had passed away and all is 
Day— all is Light. "For the Lord God giveth them 
light and they shall reign forever and ever." 



APPENDIX. 

That those who read this Work may know who the 
Author wa3 while living and that he was not a pervert, 
a mad man or a fool, we herewith give some extracts 
from a few of the letters sent to the President of the 
United States to have him appointed to the Federal 
Bench of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1910. 

From letter of George H. Thorne, Assistant Attor- 
ney General of Colorado: "He is learned in the law 
and his wide knowledge gives him an unusually broad 
and sound view of the philosophy of law and govern- 
ment." 

From letter of ex-Governor R. B. Glenn, North 
Carolina: "He is a man of ability and learning and 
commands the highest endorsement from both Bench 
and Bar." 

From letter of General A. J. West of Georgia: 
"He is a lawyer of acknoweldged ability, a student of 
great research, a gentleman of high standing, and an 
Author — a man of unusual talent and strict integrity." 

From letter of General Julian S. Carr of North 
Carolina: "He is an attorney of great ability and a 
student of great research and high personal character." 

From letter of Charles Sanford Olmstead, Bishop 
of Colorado: "Have formed a high opinion of his 
acuteness as a thinker and qualities as a man." 

From letter of Professor J. W. Gaines, Dean of 
Shorter College, Georgia : "He is a man of irreproach- 
able character and rugged honesty." 

Many, many many more letters of similar nature 
which went to the White House from leading men from 
all parts of the country could be quoted — but these 
must suffice. 

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